On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:45:23 +0200, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/29/2011 1:16 AM, Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
Well, maybe, but I know that the developer who worked on the WAP and
I-mode
interfaces for the web forum software I developed was *extremely*
concerned
about the fact that he paid by like the kilobyte.
He also used it (after developing it) quite a bit, and my understanding
was that
it was fairly lightweight.
It didn't have avatars (which I think are cruft; I don't use them on
forums),
signatures (also cruft, in emails and newsgroups too.) I think it (but
I'm not
sure, I didn't have a phone at the time) automatically stripped
second-level
quotes too, which NNTP probably wouldn't do.
Is NNTP even gzipped? I expect it isn't (and can't find any
contradiction in a
quick peek at the RFCs), which would mean it's definitely not
impossible that
HTML could win. But, I haven't really read those RFCs, so I could be
wrong.
I don't know if NNTP is compressed or not. But consider that NNTP was
developed in the days of 110 baud data transmission (that's 11
characters per second).
NNTP isn't compressed. It also rarely uses the 8th bit.
NNTP supports encryption via TLS (and thus possibly compression), but this
is a rather recent development.
Most protocols of that time were aimed at implementation simplicity
(text-based, human-readable error messages etc.).
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:[email protected]
