(NNTP) A protocol defined in RFC 977 for the distribution, inquiry, retrieval and posting of Usenetnews articles over the Internet. It is designed to be used between a news readerclientsuch asnn or GNUs and a newsserver. It is normally used on a connection to TCPport 119 on the newsserver. 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.