Webbots and Newsgroups
Newsgroups are a rich source of content for webbot developers. While less convenient than websites, news servers are not hard to access, especially when you have a set of functions that do most for the work for you. All of this chapter's example scripts use the LIB_nntp library. Functions in this library provide easy access to articles on news servers and create many opportunities for webbots. LIB_nntp contains functions that list newsgroups hosted by specific news servers, list available articles within newsgroups, and download particular articles. As with all libraries used in this book, the latest version of LIB_nntp is available for download at the book's website.
Identifying News Servers
Before you use NNTP, you'll need ...
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