Re: How to get "Extra" headers working?

Re: How to get "Extra" headers working?

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Jan 19 2004, Starling wrote:

> I didn't actually sniff on the nntp port, but I assume this
> "overview" file describes how to get an extreme summary of posts in
> a newsgroup, not even the whole headers, but just selected fields
> from the headers that the news admin decides are important for
> summarizing.

No need to sniff the port, just ask the server:

,----[ $ telnet news.gnus.org nntp ]
| Trying 80.91.224.244...
| Connected to news.gnus.org.
| Escape character is '^]'.
| 200 quimby.gnus.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.2 ready (posting ok).
| help
| 100 Legal commands
|   [...]
|   list [active|active.times|newsgroups|distributions|distrib.pats|overview.fmt|subscriptions|motd]
|   [...]
| .
| list overview.fmt
| 215 Order of fields in overview database.
| Subject:
| From:
| Date:
| Message-ID:
| References:
| Bytes:
| Lines:
| Xref:full
| Keywords:full
| In-Reply-To:full
| .
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Bye, Reiner.
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