network news transfer protocol

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network news transfer protocol - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Network News Transfer Protocol
  
     (NNTP) A protocol defined in RFC 977 for the distribution,
     inquiry, retrieval and posting of Usenet news articles
     over the Internet.  It is designed to be used between a
     news reader client such as nn or GNUS and a news
     server.  It is normally used on a connection to TCP port
     119 on the news server.  NNTP is a simple ASCII text
     protocol so even if you don't have a news reader program, you
     can just connect to the server using telnet:
  
     	telnet news 119
  
     where news is the name of your server
     (e.g. news.doc.ic.ac.uk).  Typing HELP will give a list of
     other commands.