Hi. I'm working on a perl script which downloads the messages from a newsgroup and writes them to a file. I'm having trouble extracting the message number. A code snippet: 
@fields = qw(numb subj from date mesg refr char line xref);
    
foreach $xover ($client->xover($client->newnews("$group",$current_time
+ - 3600))) 
{    
%fields = ();
@fields{@fields} = split /\t/, $xover;    
print MESSAGES "Article: $fields{numb} of $group\n";
print MESSAGES $client->article($fields{numb});
print MESSAGES "\n";
$art_num++;
}

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Everytime I try to run this code, I get an error saying "NNTPERROR: 500 not implemented NNTPERROR: 500 command not recognized " Anybody have any ideas for me? thanks.

In reply to need help using NNTP by ahakim

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