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From: cliff@cylink.uucp (Clifton Shak)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP's Place in USENET
Message-ID: <1991May11.204136.10230@cylink.uucp>
Date: 11 May 91 20:41:36 GMT
References: <1991May9.190812.18713@mccc.edu>
Organization: Cylink Corp.
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I got if from a reliable source that NNTP means "no news to post". :-)

Come on, Pete.  You deserved it.  Boy, if this got out on Compuserve....

NNTP stands for Network News Transfer Protocol.  It's purpose is covered in
RFC977.  The basic idea is that with machines hooked up via high speed
networks, there should be no need to ship an entire newsfeed to each machine,
wasting disk space and tying up the network.  A user on a machine should be
able to request just the articles he wants to read from a central news server,
interactively.  NNTP provides the mechanisms for doing this.  Nice idea,
especially for clusters of workstations tied to a server.

UUNET has NNTP in their networks directory someplace.