At 1:22 PM -0800 on 1/13/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Anthony: No. NNTP has a major advantage:
It can be browsed online.
Alain: I don't know about you, Anthony, but I browse
my E-mail online (eg. my free Yahoo mail account).
Don't get me started about webmail. I have never met a Mac web browser a
Same goes for the Block-File-Format
too.
I thaught XBF was done(?). Uli will have to answer that.
XBF is halfway there. It's already useable but sub-blocks aren't in
there yet. I've found a compromise that should make this easy,
though. If you don't mind I'll use the contents of a block to
Adrian: I believe we need to look at ways to
do this best and experiment with different
approaches. For this reason an NNTP server will
be set up on the Linux box and a test forum will
be set up there.
Anthony: Agreed.
Alain: Agreed.
Anthony: Yeh, well we still wouldn't have to
deal