On Jul 15, 2007, at 0:47 , Jonathan Cast wrote:
Usenet is a giant network of NNTP servers (and UUCP servers before
that...)
that ISPs (and various Unix sites before that) maintained at one
time (most
seem to have given up on it now), with thousands of general-purpose
newsgroups that at one time were the premier online community.
I'll just point out that NNTP is a *terrible* protocol for news
*readers*; it was originally designed to facilitate linking
individual news servers. (The various modern NNTP implementations
tend to detect readers and switch to a lower overhead NNTP
implementation which also restricts some things to keep readers from
taking up too much overhead.)
Somewhat ironically given the origin of this thread, CMU's solution
was to gateway NNTP to IMAP and require readers to use IMAP clients
to read the resulting "bboards".
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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