meaning of network news transfer protocol

1. 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 dont 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. network node node An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".

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