Re: LYNX-DEV reading/posting news

[Foteos Macrides]

Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:26:20 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Foteos Macrides <address@hidden>
>> ...
>>      What happens when you send that server a  GROUP news.group  command
>> via an  nntp://netnews.voicenet.com/news.group  URL for a news.group which
>> isn't in the list returned via the LIST NEWSGROUPS command?
>
>I tried nntp://www.voicenet.com/comp.lang.c++ and it worked fine -- but
>comp.lang.c++ isn't in the main list.
>How would I specify multiple newsgroups witout a wildcard?
>How would I specify articles?

        The support for wildcarded newsgroup names is a Lynxism, not
in RFC1738.  It's implemented as a head or tail match filter to the
reply for a LIST NEWSGROUPS command, i.e., instead of listing everything
returned by the nntp server, it lists only the groups which head or tail
match.  Thus if you use nttp://netnews.voicenet.com/comp.infosystems.*
it will skip any newsgroups which don't begin with comp.infosystems.
However, if the groups you want aren't included in the reply for a
LIST NEWSGROUPS command, that won't help.

        The formats for news, nntp, snews, newspost, newsreply, snewspost
and snewsreply URLs are explain in the "Supported URLs" section of the
online 'h'elp.

                                Fote

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