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Network News Transfer Protocol

The Network News Transport Protocol, often abbreviated to NNTP, is the protocol that is used by the Usenet internet service. It is a TCP-IP protocol based upon text strings sent over 7 bit ASCII TCP channels. It is used to transfer articles between servers as well as to read and post articles.

Related RFCs

RFC 977[?]: definition of the protocol;
RFC 1036[?]: definition of the message format.

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