From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 03:31:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA00957 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ami.tom.computerworks.net (root@AMI.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.95.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00927 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bonkers.taronga.com by ami.tom.computerworks.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0v5Ukq-0021VZC; Tue, 24 Sep 96 06:30 EDT Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA18112; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:31:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 05:31:50 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199609241031.FAA18112@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup - the next generation multi purpose netw. distrib. system (even for news ?!) Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <199608261745.KAA29029@austin.polstra.com> References: Organization: none Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199608261745.KAA29029@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra 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.