Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

• The message distributed to mailing lists by e-mail, the Internet also supports a form of public bulletin board called news.
• A newsreader program, the client software, obtains articles from a news server, a host computer that exchange articles with other servers through the Internet, because these servers use the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), they are sometimes called NNTP servers.
• To participate in newsgroups, you must run a newsreader program to log on to a server.
• Most ISPs provide access to a news server as part of an Internet account.