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The original NNTP specification, published in 1986 by Brian Kantor and Phil Lapsley, which replaced the older practice of shipping news over UUCP batch transfers. It defined the command and response structure still recognizable today, including GROUP, ARTICLE, POST and IHAVE. Obsoleted by RFC 3977 in 2006, it survives mainly as historical context and in the occasional very old server.
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