News Developer's Resources

This Usenet RKT, especially INN Man Pages have links to lots of documentation including the RFC dealing with news.
news.software.nntp newsgroup, and dejanews.com archives of the newsgroup.
Lots of good ideas and reusable code in Usenet RKT News Utilities
Rich Salz's original paper still is probably "where to start" understanding how innd works.
InterNetNews...[Salz92]: Innd architecture
InterNetNews...[Salz92]: Innd structure
The INN code itself (at INN1.5.1 source code in Hypertext) is often a good resource for "how to do something"
See Also: 6.5 INN FAQ How do I talk to innd from C or Perl?
There is an inn-workers mailing list, where implementation issues are discussed.
CPAN has a few news modules. (Perl) Look for Net/libnet in the section "05 Networking Devices Inter Process/Net/libnet"

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