NNTP

Network News Transport Protocol, the underlying distribution protocol of UseNet newsgroups.

Jon Udell's groupware book gave a lot of attention to closed-group NNTP servers as a Group Discussion medium.

The model of replicating content across servers has been considered by some to make more sense than RSS. Or, rather, RSS could be the format of the content, with NNTP being the distribution protocol...


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