[nntp going down in the history books with aol!] was Re: News Reader Question

[NoOp]

On 07/02/2009 07:03 PM, Jay Daniels wrote:
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> 
> I thought nntp died years ago.  Replaced by web forums (along with 
> mailing list) in which the moderators have somewhat control over. 
> idiots killed the news servers.
> 
> dead protocols:  nntp aka news, gopher, archie, plain text telnet 
> (except for local servers), and others?
> 
> plain static html sites are almost dead.
> 
> I recommend you use firefox to read mail from a news to web gateway 
> site.  I think it will be much faster.
> 
> nntp going down in the history books with aol!

Are you serious?