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[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> There are lots of benefits to NNTP though:

There are a lot of different things here though.

*  Classic "push" NNTP between servers.

*  "Pull" NNTP from a client to a (local) server, correctly called NNRP.

*  The headers etc. used as metadata by discussion-group messages.

*  The control message formats used by NNTP that in principle allow a 
user to cancel one of his postings even if it's propagated to servers he 
doesn't know about.

*  Discussion group readers, which by now are pretty much 
indistinguishable from mail clients.

And so on. I certainly agree that NNRP is worth supporting as a delivery 
option. I certainly agree that discussion-group metadata should be 
supported or at least learnt from. I've got no strong opinion on how 
best to organise a backend, particularly in view of typical 
discussion-group (innd etc.) servers' very poor resilience to e.g. 
abrupt shutdown.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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