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XOVER

XOVER is a Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) command used to return information from a news server's overview (NOV) database..

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XOVER is a Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) command used to return information from a news server's overview (NOV) database..

The XOVER command is documented in RFC 2980, a specification for Common NNTP Extensions authored by Stan O. Barber in October 2000.1 A newer version of NNTP, specified in RFC 3977, formalized the XOVER extension with new OVER and LIST OVERVIEW.FMT commands.2

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  1. Barber, Stan (October 2000). "XOVER". Common NNTP Extensions. IETF. sec. 2.8. doi:10.17487/RFC2980. RFC 2980.
  2. Feather, Clive D.W. (October 2006). "OVER". Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). IETF. sec. 8.3. doi:10.17487/RFC3977. RFC 3977.