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I have found that the syntax for the imap_open command in PHP 4 differs whether you're passing a variable to the imap_open function or declaring the host directly within the function. If you are passing variables to the imap_open function, the syntax should look like. I'd like to access NNTP servers, groups, and messages through PHP. Is there any existing class you'd recommend? Preferably PHP5 and good OOP.

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If its dead, is there a successor?

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The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles (aka netnews), as well as transferring news among news servers.

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NNTP isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Sadly, these days if you want to follow 10 different forums then you need to have 10 different accounts and learn 10 different UIs. I like being able to pick the newsreader that I like and have the same interface for all of my newsgroups. OpenID may bring some of this back, but I'm afraid that the 'new internet' just doesn't care about interoperability like the 'old internet' did.

It is not dead, but still used by guys who do prefer plain-text over animated emoticons and flashy ad-banners.

Seriously, I have been using it since ten years and I cannot detect any drop in the number of articles or users.

It's not dead - there's still plenty of traffic in the public C# group, for instance.

StackOverflow is becoming a pseudo-successor - but only for some kinds of threads. Q&A threads are ideally suited to SO; discussion threads don't work nearly as well here as they do in newsgroups.

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I have never been on Usenet. But I use several “private” NNTP servers (disconnected from Usenet), including the awesome NNTP interface to mailing lists: http://gmane.org/

Edit: oh and none of those servers I use needs an 'account'. Yet they're quite spam-free.

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I know many people like myself who still use nntp / usenet on a daily basis. It is an absolutely invaluable tool. I doubt it will go away anytime soon.

It's like the pinball machine of online communities. All the new kids may not know what it's all about and may think it is dead, but it is still alive and kicking and there's still nothing that can compare.

It's not dead (yet?) but it's being replaced by feeds and feedreader (RSS and Atom)

It's nowhere near as relevant as it once was. Nowadays any popular forum is going to be web-based. For example, stackoverflow would be very crap if based around NNTP. You just can't provide the same experience when your interaction with the forum software is so limited.

Another big problem is that you can't display a CAPTCHA over NNTP, or indeed provide any other modern interactive anti-spam measure.

I'd say yes, it's practically dead.

Agreed, NNTP's time is past. We have good connectivity; there is no need to replicate data across multiple servers any more. I use Google Groups in preference to NNTP.

However, NNTP does provide some community assurance against catastrophic failure. There's probably an open-source project in there somewhere for web-based forums to provide this kind of distributed, fault-tolerant, load-balanced services.

The only true NNTP Replacement could be Mailing lists. Not any web-based forum.

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Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more newsgroups. This is a list of such newsreaders.

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    • 1.1.1Proprietary software

Types of clients[edit]

1. Text newsreader – designed primarily for reading/posting text posts; unable to download binary attachments (example: non-GUI clients such as slrn)
2. Traditional newsreader – text-capable newsreader which can also handle binary attachments, although not as efficiently as more specialized clients (example: Forté Agent and Xnews)
3. Binary grabber/plucker – designed specifically for easy and efficient downloading of multi-part binary post attachments; limited or nonexistent reading/posting ability. These generally offer multi-server and multi-connection support. Most now support NZBs, and several either support or plan to support automatic Par2 processing (example: GrabIt, NewsBin, NewsLeecher). Some additionally support video and audio streaming (example: BinTube).
4. NZB downloader – binary grabber client without header support – cannot browse groups or read/post text messages; can only load 3rd-party NZBs to download binary post attachments (example: NZB-O-Matic, SABnzbd, Ninan, URD). Some incorporate an interface for accessing selected NZB search websites.
5. Binary posting client – designed specifically and exclusively for posting multi-part binary files (example: PowerPost, Sharkpost)
6. Combination client – Jack-of-all-trades supporting text reading/posting, as well as multi-segment binary downloading and automatic Par2 processing (example: Usenet Explorer)

Graphical[edit]

Proprietary software[edit]

Commercial software[edit]

• Netscape Communicator (superseded by Mozilla)
• Novell GroupWise
• Windows Mail – replaced Outlook Express for Windows Vista – terminated by Windows 7
• Windows Live Mail – replaced Outlook Express for Windows XP; optional for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
• Unison – for OS X, discontinued but is also a free download.

Freeware[edit]

• MT NewsWatcher – Mac OS X Universal Binary
• Xnews – MS Windows

Shareware[edit]

• Unison – Mac OS X (discontinued)

Free/Open-source software[edit]

• Argo (discontinued)
• Arachne (with aranews.apm package) (discontinued)
• Arena (discontinued)
• Beonex Communicator (discontinued)
• Claws Mail is a GTK+-based email and news client for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Windows.
• Gnus, is an email and news client, and feed reader for GNU Emacs.
• KNode (may be embedded in Kontact) (discontinued^[1])
• Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups (discontinued, renamed to SeaMonkey)
• Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source^[2]cross-platformemail client, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
• Pan a full-featured text and binary NNTP and Usenet client for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Windows.

Text-based[edit]

• Agora (email server, discontinued)
• Gnus (Emacs based)
• Lynx (has limited Usenet support)
• Mutt (3rd party patches)

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Web-based[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^http://www.aegiap.eu/kdeblog/2015/08/kdepim-5-0/
2. ^'Debian and Mozilla – a study in trademarks'. LWN.net. Retrieved September 18, 2010.

External links[edit]

• Media related to Usenet clients at Wikimedia Commons
• Usenet clients at Curlie