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Network News Transfer Protocol

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During an abortive attempt to update the NNTP standard in the early 1990s, a specialized form of NNTP intended specifically for use by clients, NNRP, was proposed. This protocol was never completed or fully implemented, but the name persisted in
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A newsreader, also known as a news client, is a software application that reads articles on Usenet, either directly from the news server's disks or via the NNTP.
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program. As a result, the subset of standard NNTP commands useful to clients is sometimes still referred to as "NNRP".
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to be run on personal computers connected to local networks. The resulting protocol was NNTP, which resembled the
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DIABLO, a backbone news transit system, designed to replace INND on backbone machines.
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network, with most article transfers taking place over direct
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telephone links between news servers, which were powerful
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participation proliferated, it became desirable to allow
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119 is reserved for NNTP. Well-known TCP port 433 (
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Index

NNTP
Internet protocol suite
Application layer
BGP
DHCP
v6
DNS
FTP
HTTP
HTTP/3
HTTPS
IMAP
IRC
LDAP
MGCP
MQTT
NNTP
NTP
OSPF
POP
PTP
ONC/RPC
RTP
RTSP
RIP
SIP
SMTP
SNMP
SSH
Telnet

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