Re: Can someone please explain...

[Russ Allbery <rra () STANFORD EDU>]

Michal Nazarewicz <cefek () CAREER PL> writes:
> Tuesday, Talisker wrote:

> T>433 NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol see rfc 977
> T>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html

> To be more precise: it's an NNTP over SSL crypted (secure) layer.

No, it's not.  That's NNTPS.  NNSP was originally intended to be NNTP
without the reader commands (i.e., server to server peering only).  Some
people have misused the port number for NNTP over SSL, but that's not what
it's for.

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Russ Allbery (rra () stanford edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>