Ryan said:
> > I would like to use the NNTP client command "newnews" with the
> > REBOL nntp protocol to retrieve new messages since a specified
> > date.
> Hi Ryan,
> 'newnews' is not currently implemented in the NNTP dialect.
> I don't know Jeff's exact reason for not implementing it, but it
> could be due to the high number of servers that have newnews
> administatively disabled.
Howdy Kevin:
Pretty much. NNTP only supports what could be determined as
commonly found features. The exception is xhdr which though not
standard seemed to be too useful not to include.
Ryan, if your server supports it, you could use nntp.r's xhdr
feature to get the date headers from a newsgroup, determine which
articles are new (greater than your start date) and download those.
Of course, adding newnews to the nntp dialect shouldn't be too hard
either. Check out how nntp does xhdr for instance.
Hopefully when the next version of core comes out with block
parsing abilities, nntp's dialecting engine can be upgraded to use
that much cleaner approach instead of its present mini interpreter.
That would also make it easier to extend nntp's capabilities. Maybe I
can steal some time somewhere along the way to get that one done.. :-)
The list never ends... (-:
-jeff
