I have been using commons-net for a long time (lately 3.1) and
sometimes they tell me on newsgroups that I am not replying to the
specific comment by a user or something. I always thought they meant
my comments are not threaded/addressed to specific users (I tend to
just reply to all comments at once), but they may mean that either the
newsgroup servers I use are messing with the headers of my messages or
the way I set "References" and "In-Reply-To" in the SimpleNNTP object
is not right (see my code bellow).
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You can see what I mean on that post: comp.unix.shell: "trying to
parametrize find's name filter ..."
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I think all I have to do is reply to the message ID of the user's
post, which you can get by going:
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1) Click on the particular message
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2) click on ("more options") then on "Show original"
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3) get the message id (from the "Message-ID:
<[email protected]>"
one liner, the
"<[email protected]>"
part
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4) to set it as the value for the "In-Reply-To" header field, a la
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What am I doing wrong?
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Could you point me to good example of how to do it right?
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thanks
lbrtchx
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SimpleNNTPHdr = new SimpleNNTPHeader(aFrom, aSubject);
SimpleNNTPHdr.addNewsgroup(aNewsGroup);
if(aOrg != null && aOrg.length() >
0){SimpleNNTPHdr.addHeaderField("Organization", aOrg);}
if(aRefs != null && aRefs.length() >
0){SimpleNNTPHdr.addHeaderField("References",aRefs); }
if(aReply2 != null && aReply2.length() > 0){
SimpleNNTPHdr.addHeaderField("In-Reply-To", aReply2); }
SimpleNNTPHdr.addHeaderField("X-Newsreader", "NetComponents");
// __ then I establish the actual connection and send the message
NNTPClnt = new NNTPClient();
NNTPClnt.addProtocolCommandListener(new PrintCommandListener(new
PrintWriter(System.err)));
NNTPClnt.connect(aSrvr);
if(NNTPReply.isPositiveCompletion(NNTPClnt.getReplyCode())){
if(NNTPClnt.isAllowedToPost()){
FRdr = new FileReader(IFl); // local text file with the comment
I want to post
Writer Wrtr = NNTPClnt.postArticle();
if(Wrtr != null){
Wrtr.write(SimpleNNTPHdr.toString());
Util.copyReader(FRdr, Wrtr);
Wrtr.close();
NNTPClnt.completePendingCommand();
}
}
// __
NNTPClnt.logout(); NNTPClnt.disconnect();
FRdr.close();
}
else{
NNTPClnt.disconnect();
System.err.println("NNTP " + aSrvr + " refused connection!");
}
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