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| author | Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> | 2011-12-03 11:05:10 -0600 |
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| committer | Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> | 2011-12-03 11:05:10 -0600 |
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diff --git a/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/kioslave/nntp.docbook b/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/kioslave/nntp.docbook new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2cbbc4b6387 --- /dev/null +++ b/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/kioslave/nntp.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +<article lang="&language;" id="nntp"> +<title +>nntp</title> +<articleinfo> +<authorgroup> +<author +>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author> +<othercredit role="translator" +><firstname +>Malcolm</firstname +><surname +>Hunter</surname +><affiliation +><address +><email +>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email +></address +></affiliation +><contrib +>Conversion to British English</contrib +></othercredit +> +</authorgroup> +</articleinfo> +<para +>The nntp kioslave accesses <acronym +>NNTP</acronym +> servers directly.</para> + +<para +>This kioslave can not be used with servers that do not implement the <command +>GROUP</command +> command, including some versions of the popular <application +>INN</application +> news server which is often used by <acronym +>ISP</acronym +>s. It does work with <application +>leafnode</application +>, which many people use to keep an offline cache of news articles on their own hard drive or within their <acronym +>LAN</acronym +>.</para> + +<para +>You can use the nntp kioslave by typing <userinput +>nntp://yourserver/groupname</userinput +> into the &konqueror; <acronym +>URL</acronym +> bar.</para> + +<para +>If you enter a group name, as above, and the group is available, you will see the messages stored for that group as icons in &konqueror;.</para> + +<para +>Clicking on a message will display it as plain text, including all headers. This could be useful for debugging a news client to news server connection, for example, to ensure that your new <application +>leafnode</application +> server is working correctly.</para> + +<para +>If you don't enter a group name, and only the server name, you will see a list of available groups. </para> + +<para +>Please be aware that this could take an enormous amount of time, and will cause a lot of network traffic. Some commercial usenet servers have 60,000 or more groups available, and doing such a thing may cause your desktop to freeze.</para +> + +</article> |