I have followed the guide on this site, here and have managed to get my script working fine to collect the articles.
But the problem comes when i change ARTICLE to HEAD so i can just try and recieve headers. My aim is to index newsgroups via downloading all the headers and then filtering them.
I am no php genius but im not a total idiot either! i just cant seem to get either HEAD or BODY to work and dont want to waste time downloading the full article when all i want is the subject line! Especially if im indexing binary groups!
Well thanks for ne help put my way 
Also here is my final code if it helps at all...
<?php
include ("../../include/admin.php");
//$cfgServer = "news.astraweb.com";
//$cfgPort = "119";
//$cfgTimeOut = 10;
/
Getting connected to the news server
/
// open a socket
if(!$cfgTimeOut)
// without timeout
$usenet_handle = fsockopen($cfgServer, $cfgPort);
else
// with timeout
$usenet_handle = fsockopen($cfgServer, $cfgPort, &$errno, &$errstr, $cfgTimeOut);
if(!$usenet_handle) {
echo "Connexion failed\n";
exit();
}
else {
echo "Connected\n";
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 1024);
}
/
Getting the article info
/
//$cfgUser = "xxxxxx";
//$cfgPasswd = "yyyyyy";
//$cfgNewsGroup = "alt.php";
// identification required on private server
if($cfgUser) {
fputs($usenet_handle, "AUTHINFO USER ".$cfgUser."\n");
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 1024);
fputs($usenet_handle, "AUTHINFO PASS ".$cfgPasswd."\n");
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 1024);
// check error
if($tmp != "281 Ok\r\n") {
echo "502 Authentication error\n";
exit();
} }
// select newsgroup
fputs($usenet_handle, "GROUP ".$cfgNewsGroup."\n");
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 1024);
if($tmp == "480 Authentication required for command\r\n") {
echo "$tmp\n";
exit();
}
$info = split(" ", $tmp);
$total = $info[1];
$first = $info[2];
$last = $info[3];
print "<BR>First : $first";
print "<BR>Last : $last";
print "<BR>Total : $total";
$atotal = $last - $first;
print "<BR>Actual Total : $atotal";
/
Now were connected adn selceted a group
were goin to get the latest 10 articles in that group!
/
//$cfgLimit = 10;
$boucle=$last-$cfgLimit;
while ($boucle <= $last) {
set_time_limit(0);
fputs($usenet_handle, "ARTICLE $boucle/n");
$article="";
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 4096);
if(substr($tmp,0,3) != "220") {
echo "+----------------------+\n";
echo "Error on article $boucle\n";
echo "+----------------------+\n";
}
else {
while($tmp!=".\r\n") {
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 4096);
$article = $article.$tmp;
}
echo "<BR><BR>+----------------------+";
echo "Article $boucle";
echo "+----------------------+<BR><BR><BR>";
echo "$article";
}
$boucle++;}
/
fputs($usenet_handle, "HEAD 1520846");
$tmp = fgets($usenet_handle, 4096);
print $tmp;
/
?>