[NTLUG:Discuss] NNTP/News access

[bkontr@yahoo.com]

--- MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com> wrote:
> 
> Usenix is not new and not any faster than mail,
> protocol wise.  News
> groups have to be pushed from server to server
> instead of it being
> delivered to me it has to be replicated to a bunch
> of servers and is a
> _major_ bandwidth hog as far as the big picture.  
> 
> Take this into consideration:
> UseNet RFC 850       1983
> NNTP   RFC 977       1986
> POP    RFC 1081      1984
> IMAP   RFC 1064      1988
> SMTP   RFC 821       1982
> All of which reference back through a few RFCs to
> RFC 561 from 1973,
> that is "Standardizing Network Mail Headers" or RFC
> 524, from 1973 as
> well, on the "MP", the Mail Protocol, which was
> based on FTP.
> 
> And you still have to have SMTP to have IMAP or POP.
>  ;)
> 
> Point is none of this is even close to being new
> ideas, protocols or
> technologies and none of it is fast or slow based on
> the protocol used.

I don't think the protocol is the issue here, it's the
fact that you get all of the mailing list mail in your
inbox whether or not you are actually interested in
all of the subjects.  With a newsgroup you can check
the subjects you are interested in and follow the
thread easier... all while avoiding HTML and huge
messages.  My main peeve with mailing lists is having
to sort through and delete the subject threads I am
not interested in.  The other bad thing is that if you
go on vacation or are just away from the computer for
an extended period your inbox gets cluttered with
cruft very quickly.  In this case, it is much easier
and much more efficient to simply  go to a newsgroup
and pull the subject threads you are interested in.

Regards,
BK



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