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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 (External Links)

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

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