Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:31:50 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup - the next generation multi purpose netw. distrib. system (even for news ?!) Message-ID: <199609241031.FAA18112@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199608261745.KAA29029@austin.polstra.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960825132316.1968A-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
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In article <199608261745.KAA29029@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: >One other point about replacing NNTP with CVSup is that, politically, >it would probably never happen. NNTP, with all its flaws, is the >universal standard. It would take a lot to get people to start >using anything different. I think that, in the short term, people will >move toward a streaming version of NNTP. In the longer term, the whole >netnews system will have to be replaced with something radically >different. But every news transport link is point to point, and a LOT of places use things other than NNTP server mode. I use UUCP and NNTP reader mode, for example, and most ISPs would rather feed their corporate clients with something the *clients* can control so they don't have to spend support hours patching newsfeeds files.
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