In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
Q: The Network News Transfer Protocol ( NNTP ) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles ( " netnews " ) between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications .
A:
The Network News Transfer Protocol is a computer protocol that was used to create groups that could exchange news articles between people .