Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Net::NNTP

Net::NNTP is one of the libnet modules. It provides methods for programming a news client to interface with an NNTP server. Net::NNTP implements the NNTP protocol as defined in RFC 977, as well as a number of extensions defined in the IETF Internet Draft document mentioned earlier.

For example, the following code:

$nntp->post(@message);

is equivalent to issuing the post command and associated X-headers directly to an NNTP server on port 119.