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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:03:23 GMT
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Timothy Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > NNTP is (IMO) the most logical transport
> > protocol for RSS data anyway.
> Why? For futureproofing. I suspect that NNTP will decrease its 'marketshare' as
> time goes on whilst RSS will increase.
You seem to make the same mistakes as many other people:
a) RSS and NNTP are two completely different things.
RSS is a data format.
NNTP is a data transport protocol.
b) Things aren't bad, just because they're old.
> I could be wrong about that but from
> reading this tree, it seems I am not the only person who has dumped NNTP for
> reading Lugnet. Doing everything via HTTP and (potentially) RSS has the
> advantage that it is really unlikely to be 'antiquated' or unsupported in the
> near future.
NNTP will not become unsupported until a better replacement arrives. And it
hasn't yet.
> Well, perhaps Lugnet is converting the other way around but my point still
> stands. If you can convert one way, you can reverse the proccess (given a
> lossless transformation which I think RSS could provide).
I am quite sure that RSS can not provide a lossless transport of the information
embedded in NNTP [1]. It is on the other hand trivial to distribute RSS using
NNTP [2].
Play well,
Jacob
[1] At least not without mistreating the format so much that ordinary RSS
aggregators would break.
[2] But it is true that there aren't that many RSS aggregators around, which
know NNTP yet.
--
A LEGO construction site:
http://lego.jacob-sparre.dk/By/Huse/Skyskraber/
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| (...) I am not making a mistake. I am referring to use rather than the precise definition. I am well aware that a protocol and a data format are different, does a typical user care, however, that (s)he just downloaded a file via FTP or HTTP? (...) (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Why? For futureproofing. I suspect that NNTP will decrease its 'marketshare' as time goes on whilst RSS will increase. I could be wrong about that but from reading this tree, it seems I am not the only person who has dumped NNTP for reading (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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