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Originally Posted by lange

I am willing to pay for a NNTP news server. What news server can I use ? Anybody with Usenet.com or Newsfeeds.com ? Or it doesn't matter ? Here is their answer (usenet, newsfeeds):

"You can access the newsgroups through the web to news gateway, but I am not familiar with access through Vbulletin NNTP Gateway. You can give it a try, but as I said I am not familiar with it."

"Hello, You can gain access via web to news gateway. I do not know what vbulletin is. Thank you, Sales"

The question need to be asked is: can the web server access the news server? It is perhaps easier to use the news server that your web hosting company might have. Failing that, you just need to make sure the web server can access the news server on port 119 using tcp protocol. In a nutshell, the web server which runs this script will act as a news reader, it must be able to read news via port 119 using tcp protocol. You might need to check this with your web host company in case they run outbound firewall on the web server. Some commercial news contents providers let you access news (nntp) through other common ports (eg. port 80) to get around.