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NNTP Protocol Overview
The
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is documented in
RFC 977.
NNTP
is a request-reply protocol in the style of
SMTP or
FTP.
Unlike mail, news does not require separate protocols for user-to-host
and host-to-host exchanges.
NNTP is used in all cases.
NNTP
has facilities to support reading newsgroups, posting new articles,
and transferring articles between news servers.
