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

[Tom Sparks]

--- On Sun, 5/7/09, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> From: marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>
> Subject: Re: [nntp going down in the history books with aol!] was Re: News Reader Question
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Received: Sunday, 5 July, 2009, 12:22 AM
> Jay Daniels wrote:
> 
> > NoOp wrote:
> >> On 07/02/2009 07:03 PM, Jay Daniels wrote:
> >> ...
> >>> 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?

without telnet the internet would not exist.

they may be dead in the mainstreams eyes, but they are still being used for many reason, even NASA is going to use the store and forward technology (1970-1989) for it's interplanetary network (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_internet)

tom_a_sparks


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