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.
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