NETWORK NEWS TRANSFER PROTOCOL

Domain	Definition
Computing	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. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: 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 (External Links)

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

Alternative Orthography: NETWORK NEWS TRANSFER PROTOCOL

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 45 54 57 4F 52 4B 4E 45 57 53 54 52 41 4E 53 46 45 52 50 52 4F 54 4F 43 4F 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000101 01010100 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 00100000 01001110 01000101 01010111 01010011 00100000 01010100 01010010 01000001 01001110 01010011 01000110 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010100 01001111 01000011 01001111 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#84 &#87 &#79 &#82 &#75 &#32 &#78 &#69 &#87 &#83 &#32 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#83 &#70 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#79 &#67 &#79 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0054 0057 004F 0052 004B 004E 0045 0057 0053 0054 0052 0041 004E 0053 0046 0045 0052 0050 0052 004F 0054 004F 0043 004F 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

NETWORK NEWS TRANSFER PROTOCOL

Specialty Definition: NETWORK NEWS TRANSFER PROTOCOL

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