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Williams,<br>
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I am working on similar project where I have to send reports to
multiple users, so instead of pushing the information with SMTP<br>
<br>
I send it to a newgroup where the user can use web portal to login and
read the report.<br>
<br>
the report is basically a simple text as you mentioned ( some reports
are in html format where I used newspost in my script to send reports).<br>
<br>
They are a lot of Usenet News Readers out there, ( for example PHP News
Reader ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnews/files/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnews/files/</a> ) <br>
<br>
you can configure it to use your existing SQL db to connect.<br>
<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
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On 05/18/2010 04:29 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
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<p><font size="2">On 05/18/10 15:13, William Ottley wrote:<br>
> Hello all,<br>
<br>
*wave*<br>
<br>
> I'm looking to create a simple text transport system.<br>
<br>
Is this "simple text transportation system" used between multiple<br>
servers or between clients and servers?<br>
<br>
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> Yes I could use SMTP, but the truth is, its overkill for what I
want.<br>
<br>
I too often think of NNTP as a wonderful way to disseminate information<br>
between multiple systems. I think the peering between servers is quite<br>
good at what it does.<br>
<br>
> So all these text messages won't be having attachments, mime, etc.<br>
<br>
Ok. Though, NNTP can use proper MIME encoded posts if you did want to<br>
transfer such. (See more below.)<br>
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> I'm thinking for authentication, I can implement my existing mysql<br>
> users database.<br>
<br>
Unless your users are going to be interacting with the news server<br>
directly, I don't think authentication is much of an NNTP related issue.<br>
(It is out side of the scope of NNTP.)<br>
<br>
> I guess in my head, since i'm only wanting simple text to be picked<br>
> up by the client, then INN would be the perfect situation.<br>
<br>
Please clarify what you mean by "client" here? Do you mean end users<br>
logging in and checking messages? Or do you mean other servers that you<br>
are communicating with that will pull messages out of the news server?<br>
<br>
> Would anyone know where I could start with regards to stats of how<br>
> much CPU would be used for X amount of users?<br>
<br>
I don't know where to start. Though I'm sure that it will be able to<br>
handle quite a few on moderate hardware. Especially seeing as how you<br>
are talking about texts posts, which should be small.<br>
<br>
> I'm also looking for a good open source php nntp client...<br>
<br>
I've heard that a couple different NNTP web clients (think "web news"<br>
compared to "web mail") exist. I've never used any of them. Though,<br>
again, this depends on what the "client" really is, the server or end
users.<br>
<br>
I have often wondered about using NNTP as a back end transportation<br>
system for a blog / web site / RSS gateway. I love how NNTP will push<br>
posts to other servers. Thus other servers don't have to poll their<br>
peers to see if there are new messages. Further, if you allow, NNTP<br>
being a standard protocol can easily be interfaced with directly, thus<br>
allowing your ""system to be accessed via multiple modes.<br>
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Grant. . . .<br>
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