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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:16:29 GMT
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AT@ wrote:

> In lugnet.admin.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:

> I used to use the NNTP service but I must say I much prefer the web based
> service. I find NNTP to be that little bit too primitive, sort of like
> email software which can't deal with HTML mime type.

As no email software SHOULD, but let's discuss THAT topic somewhere else ;)
(email which is purely HTML goes to my /dev/null , makes for a saner day)

> I think using RSS is a great idea. It should work on older technology, it
> gets around workplaces which don't like NNTP and it can be fiddled with by
> tech-savvy readers.

RSS is nice, but how would you replace the offline behaviour of NNTP and how
would you handle threaded discussions?

> Again, I have to say that RSS seems like a great idea. I have the time and
> inclination to go through all the things I may be interested in but if I
> didn't (or don't in the future), I would prefer to use RSS over NNTP any
> day.

RSS has other issues (badly configured clients can easily drive the data
traffic up bigtime for instance)
--
Jan-Albert van Ree   | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/



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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) I used to use the NNTP service but I must say I much prefer the web based service. I find NNTP to be that little bit too primitive, sort of like email software which can't deal with HTML mime type. (...) I think using RSS is a great idea. It (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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