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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@disasterpiece73 I managed to connect to the server, only a few minutes after they finally let me talk to the guy who knows what NNTP is.
starkiller99 (StarKiller) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:38:25 -0000
@disasterpiece73 I managed to connect to the server, only a few minutes after they finally let me talk to the guy who knows what NNTP is.
WTF? Why do I have to tell ISP support people WTF Usenet is? How can they fix the NNTP server if they don't know WTF it is?
starkiller99 (StarKiller) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:53:25 -0000
WTF? Why do I have to tell ISP support people WTF Usenet is? How can they fix the NNTP server if they don't know WTF it is?
Is it possible to subscribe to VALVe's Newsgroups via NNTP (the newsgroup protocol) or will I have to stick to having emails sent?
LUADuck (Andrew Leach) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:07:20 -0000
Is it possible to subscribe to VALVe's Newsgroups via NNTP (the newsgroup protocol) or will I have to stick to having emails sent?
@jagdpanter 私は以前には野生生物板とnntp板、過激な恋愛板、フェチ板等をみてまいた。何でか、たまたまDTM板の「ちんぽごきぶり」スレに流れたんですよね。DTPはよくわかりませんが今度元気な時に覗いてみます～
hibikiyuko (hibikiyuko) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:15:42 -0000
@jagdpanter 私は以前には野生生物板とnntp板、過激な恋愛板、フェチ板等をみてまいた。何でか、たまたまDTM板の「ちんぽごきぶり」スレに流れたんですよね。DTPはよくわかりませんが今度元気な時に覗いてみます～
[UPDATE] Thunderbird Portable V3.0: Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client with SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and RSS sup... http://bit.ly/7rT05Y
mobilejraybot (Xgeoph Ray) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:32:51 -0000
[UPDATE] Thunderbird Portable V3.0: Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client with SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and RSS sup... http://bit.ly/7rT05Y
@tuxplanet je viens de le voir. Vive NNTP ;-)
jne (Jérôme Neuvéglise) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:48:12 -0000
@tuxplanet je viens de le voir. Vive NNTP ;-)

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