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Re: Howto message search with nntp client
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 4 Jun 1999 21:11:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> [...]
> Is this feature something not implemented on the server side?
From what you showed in your conversation-log, it looks like that is
correct.
> Is it even standard nntp?
I don't think it is, but I'm not sure. At the very least, it's either a
standard NNTP extension or a non-standard NNTP extension. Probably once was
a non-standard NNTP extension and is now vying to become a standard
extension.
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> JSPROAT: XPAT SUBJECT 1- *[Uu][Ff][Oo]*
^
The 'X' there in the command denotes an extension.
> LUGNET: 500 Command unrecognized.
^^^
And this denotes that the NNTP server doesn't recognize the extension (it's
unimplemented).
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> I'm fairly clueless about nntp on this level. At a guess, the Netscape nntp
> client hit two snags. The first is then it tried the command "LIST
> EXTENSIONS",
Yeah, interesting... It did the "LIST EXTENSIONS" thing to see if "XPAT"
was supported, but it tried it anyway! :-o
> and the second is that funky "XPAT SUBJECT 1- *[Uu][Ff][Oo]*".
Looks like it's trying to do a case-insensitive regex scan of all the
subject lines in the group for the string "UFO".
> Any ideas?
Unfortunately, no.
OTOH, I could easily make a tarball for you of all the raw articles, stored
as separate files in a big directory hierarchy. Then you could scan that
with grep.
--Todd
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| (...) This might work for a one-shot thing, but in general it'd probably be easier to use the Web interface search page. I found what I was looking for there (Steve's UFO hull mock-up.) It'd probably be incredibly huge, anyway, neh? Cheers, - (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Howto message search with nntp client
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| Todd, I am using Netscape Communicator 4.5 as my nntp client. One feature I haven't been able to figure out how to use is the newsgroup message search. After the "Cylon Eye" progress indicator runs for about half a minute, I get back the error (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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