diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index 78d386f07d8..0495121ebd6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import importlib
 import importlib.util
 import logging.handlers
+import nntplib
 import os
 import platform
 import re
@@ -1341,6 +1342,10 @@ def filter_error(err):
         if timeout is not None:
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
         yield
+    except nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError as err:
+        if verbose:
+            sys.stderr.write(denied.args[0] + "\n")
+        raise denied from err
     except OSError as err:
         # urllib can wrap original socket errors multiple times (!), we must
         # unwrap to get at the original error.