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Title : A Protocol for the Transmission of
Net News Articles over IP multicast
Author(s) : H. Rupp
Filename : draft-rfced-exp-rupp-03.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 1997-09-16
Mcntp (Multicast News Transfer Protocol) provides a way to use the IP
multicast infrastructure to transmit NetNews articles between news
servers. Doing so will reduce the bandwidth that is actually needed
for transmission of articles which is mostly done via NNTP. This does
not affect how news reading clients communicate with servers.
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