RFC 977:Network News Transfer Protocol: ...
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... file systems that can offer the generality of service that stream connections using Internet ...
... NNTP specifies a protocol for the distribution, inquiry, retrieval, and posting of news articles using a reliable stream (such as TCP) server-client ...
... hosts attached to the LAN may read news articles using stream connections to the news host ...


... The news server specified by this document uses a stream connection (such as TCP ...
... requirement in this specification for debugging output, but if such is provided over the connected stream, it must use these response codes. If appropriate to a specific implementation, other x9x codes may be used for ...



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