Re: [Pan-users] Supernews and xzver

[Heinrich Müller]

Am 06.01.2013 14:51, schrieb Chris Gentle:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Heinrich Müller 
> <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     telnet news.supernews.com <http://news.supernews.com> nntp
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> telnet news.supernews.com <http://news.supernews.com> nntp
> Trying 216.168.3.30...
> Connected to news.supernews.com <http://news.supernews.com>.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 Supernews server ready
> authinfo user XXXXXXXXXXXXX
> 381 more authentication required
> authinfo pass XXXXXXXXXXXX
> 281 Supernews server ready
> help
> 100 help (GC 3.4.22)
>   ARTICLE [<msgid>|number]
>   AUTHINFO type value
>   BODY [<msgid>|number]
>   CAPABILITIES
>   DATE
>   GROUP newsgroup
>   HEAD [<msgid>|number]
>   HELP
>   LAST
>   LIST
>   LISTGROUP newsgroup
>   MODE READER
>   NEWGROUPS yyyymmdd hhmmss [GMT]
>   NEWNEWS newsgroups yyyymmdd hhmmss [GMT]
>   NEXT
>   POST
>   STAT
>   XFEATURE
>   XFEATURES
>   XHDR field range
>   XOVER range
>   QUIT
seems like they use gzip compression a-la giganews.
i'm debugging this until my trial period is over.
if you want to, i could use you as a guinea pig for testing this if i can't
get it right until then.
thanks for the swift answers

cheers.