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 don't 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.