anntp

anntp is a single-header implemenatation of the NNTP (aka incorrectly, the usenet protocol) protocol, which is a very early sort of distributed “forum” system made for the Usenet network, still active today.

It should run in all POSIX-compliant systems:

• Linux
• macOS
• WSL/Cygwin
• BSD
• IRIX
• Tru64
• AIX
• …

Don’t expect a port to Windows in a very long time :).

It supports TLS via OpenSSL (or I guess LibreSSL too), it is opt-in and to use it you need to define the ANNTP_TLS macro prior to inclusion.

Features

• Doesn’t have any required dependencies (except for TLS)
• A couple abstractions here and there
• It exists, which makes it one of the few NNTP libraries for C that don’t completely suck
• It’s small, auditable, and undestandable

anntp is on version 0.1 dev for now.

Source code

There’s the SourceHut repo, which is the official one, and a less-mantained github mirror. Prefer the sourcehut one.

• srht repo: https://git.sr.ht/~rosell/anntp

Eventually, I will host here an NNTP server and add a couple newsgroups for anntp, until then ugh…

Dependencies

• as said before, an UNIX system
• a C compiler able to compile C99 or later
• network connection, obviously

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