Netnews Architecture and Protocols

This specification has been revised 4 times since RFC 850 (1983). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 850 (1983)
  2. RFC 1036 (1987)
  3. RFC 1849 (2010)
  4. RFC 5536 (2009)
  5. RFC 5537 (2009)

Current versions — implement against these

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 5537 (November 2009).