RFC 1036 Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt

RFC 977 The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0977.txt

NNTP Extensions (nntpext) Charter an IETF working group to define updates to the NNTP protocol http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/nntpext-charter.html

Usenet Article Standard Update (usefor) This is an IETF working group on Usenet message format specs, updating and correcting RFC 1036. http://www.landfield.com/usefor/

mcntp Freely available implementation of Usenet news via multicast. http://www.pilhuhn.de/mcntp/

News Overview (NOV) Reference Distribution Documentation and code detailing the format and use of the NNTP XOVER command's output. ftp://ftp.std.com/src/news/nov.dist.tar.gz

RFC 2980 Common NNTP Extensions http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2980.txt

The Mac Orchard - Connectivity Applications TCPSerial http://www.macorchard.com/connect.html