A new forum is up! Q: what means nntp

[Cameron Laird]

In article <a0i0q7$1ii$1 at serv1.iunet.it>, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
>news:a0i027$dl2$1 at panix3.panix.com...
>> In article <u2ovs5he3d2hcd at corp.supernews.com>,
>> DeepBleu <DeepBleu at DeepBleu.org> wrote:
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>> >NNTP is an internet protocol like SMTP, POP3 and HTTP for
>> >communication.  Also, it is the oldest one and it used to be the most
>> >instructive before AOL hit the scene along with the 'gold rush' :)
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>SMTP must be older, by a few years (say '82 vs '86?).  FTP must be
>older still -- before SMTP, mail was distributed with an FTP tweak.
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>Of course, netnews used other transport-level protocols (mostly
>based on UUCP, as I recall) well before the Internet was officially
>inaugurated (1983, wasn't it?).
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RFC 765  FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL                        June     1980
RFC 821  SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL                 August   1982
RFC 854  TELNET PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION                 May      1983
RFC 850  Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages   June     1983
RFC 977  Network News Transfer Protocol                February 1986

Telnet had already been around for a while by this time.

I don't know what you mean by the "official inauguration"
of the 'Net.
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