USENET/NNTP NEWS

IKANO's USENET News Server uses the News Network Transfer Protocol (NNTP) and gives branded partners the ability to deliver branded news service to their subscriber base. Customers can read and post to news groups on the Internet, via the branded partner's URL news interface.

Subscribers can read and post to news groups through an Internet News Reader (Outlook Express, for example), or through a Web-based interface. Newsgroups are updated on a daily basis via satellite delivery.

USENET is a very large distributed text conferencing system currently in use on the Internet. The underlying concept of USENET is simple: one person posts an article to a newsgroup on a local news server. The local server archives the article and sends it to a news hub which routes the article to other hubs and servers. This process continues until all interconnected news systems have received a copy of the article.

USENET servers and hubs operate using the Internet RFC-977 defined NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol). News systems use NNTP to implement a “flood-fill” algorithm to route news articles.