"Patrick Steele" <patr***@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:MPG.1faab4726308388a9896b2@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <MqmdncW7DoS5R93YnZ2dnUVZ8smdn***@bt.com>,
> t***@idcodeware.co.uk says...
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm a little fed up with having to run Outlook Express on all my clients
>> for
>> News, Outlook just doesn't cut it either!
>>
>> I want to write a server based app that will conect and sync, then write
>> a
>> client that will connect to the central database.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a starting point?
>
> First, you'll be using NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol.  Start
> googling for NNTP and .NET (there's many free and commercial NNTP
> libraries out there).
>
> You should also familiarize yourself with the NNTP protocol
> (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html)
>
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> Patrick Steele
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