Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What is NNTP?
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.223942.13388@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <187@numenor.gtephx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 1991 22:39:42 GMT

In article <187@numenor.gtephx.UUCP> yountm@gtephx.UUCP (Marvin Yount) writes:
>What exactly is NNTP?  ...

Summed up very briefly, NNTP is the (main) protocol used to exchange news
over TCP/IP networks like the Internet.  Such networks are typically,
although not invariably, based on permanent connections at relatively
high speeds, rather than autodialing modems and phone calls.  If all
your connections to the outside world go via UUCP, NNTP is probably of
no interest to you.

>... We're currently running bnews (2.11) and we are
>considering converting to C News. ...

This is an entirely independent issue.  B and C News are storage and
distribution systems; NNTP is one of the protocols potentially used in
the actual transmission.  (This is a slight oversimplification, but the
general point remains valid.)
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