The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among news servers. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley completed RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.

Usenet was originally designed around the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct computer-to-computer telephone links. Readers and posters would log into the same computers that hosted the servers, reading the articles directly from the local disk.

As local area networks and the Internet became more commonly used, it became desirable to allow newsreaders to be run on personal computers, and a means of employing the Internet to handle article transfers was desired. Because networked Internet-compatible filesystems were not yet widely available, it was decided to develop a new protocol that resembled SMTP, but was tailored for reading newsgroups.

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I'm on nntp after ages :)
visik7 (Marco Bazzani) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:28:10 -0000
I'm on nntp after ages :)
@ReinH do you have a link for the Haskell NNTP lib? I was looking at a Ruby one today, although I think the NZB lib for Ruby is what I need
chrisrbailey (Chris Bailey) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:40:14 -0000
@ReinH do you have a link for the Haskell NNTP lib? I was looking at a Ruby one today, although I think the NZB lib for Ruby is what I need
There doesn't appear to be an NNTP library for Erlang. This will be even funner than I thought. But there's an NNTP library for Haskell...
ReinH (Rein Henrichs) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:26:22 -0000
There doesn't appear to be an NNTP library for Erlang. This will be even funner than I thought. But there's an NNTP library for Haskell...
using POPFILE + nntp//rss = bayesian filter for interesting rss!
aarontay (aarontay) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:38:57 -0000
using POPFILE + nntp//rss = bayesian filter for interesting rss!
nntpクライアント。また作りたいなぁ。
kuuki (kuuki) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:19:18 -0000
nntpクライアント。また作りたいなぁ。
1990年代が日本の空白の10年だと言われるけれど、オレにとってもいろいろな意味で空白の10年でした。仕事を始めて、パソコン通信はほとんどせず、UUCP と NNTP と SMTP に明け暮れた10年。SFを含めて小説をまったく読まずに仕事に打ち込んだ10年。
ikarashi (Satoshi Ikarashi) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:29:18 -0000
1990年代が日本の空白の10年だと言われるけれど、オレにとってもいろいろな意味で空白の10年でした。仕事を始めて、パソコン通信はほとんどせず、UUCP と NNTP と SMTP に明け暮れた10年。SFを含めて小説をまったく読まずに仕事に打ち込んだ10年。

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