Network news transfer protocol

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Used for the distribution, inquiry, retrieval, and posting of Netnews articles using a reliable stream-based mechanism. For news-reading clients, NNTP enables retrieval of news articles that are stored in a central database, giving subscribers the ability to select only those articles they wish to read. (RFC 3977)

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Entity Type

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: NNTP
plural: Network news transfer protocols
possessive: Network news transfer protocol's
pluralpossessive: Network news transfer protocols'

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