This project is paused since november 2001. It actually is one of my first projects and is built on top of beta 1 of the .NET Framework and VisualStudio. I thought for a long time that I've lost all the code of this project but I just found some files dated as 08-21-2001. However, I'm sure these files are not the newest version and I must have been starting to implement some new features as there are some empty bodies of properties and methods. It won't compile in its current state. If you're interested anyway, you can download the zip archive linked below. But do not expect too much ...

:. ZIP Archive of some recovered files
 

Developing an NNTP client library, with that .NET CLR compatible applications can read and manipulate newsgroup comfortably and in an object-oriented way.
 

The first version is handled quite near the NNTP protocol, while the second version eliminates that completely by adding an extended abstraction layer.

:. RFC0977
:. RFC2980
 

• full implementation of RFC0977:
• authentification
• Reader- und Slavemode
• new groups and articles since a given point of time
• all groups
• group details like count of posts etc.
• serverside group- and articlepointers
• pointeroperators: stat, next, last
• article details: head, body, article
• post own articles
• some parts of the NNTP extentions defined in RFC2980
• Xover, for efficient article metaquerries
• Xhdr, to querry e.g. all articles' subject
• Xgtitle and Xpath

• additional:
• full abstraction layer
• object oriented interface with indexers etc.
• implementation of most of the RFC2980 extentions
• additional communication optimisation, multithreading
• parsing for MIME, Base64, Uuencoding etc.
• easy binary attachment handling