On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 08:46:00AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > NNTP was designed 30 years ago. We should consider moving on. The > modern protocol world is JSON/REST
Let's not be so quick to dismiss NNTP: it's a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age. ;) It has long since proven itself to be very robust under adverse conditions, which once upon a time might have been defined as "very slow network transport plagued with serious lag and frequent disconnects" and might now be defined as "network transport being actively interfered with for commercial or political reasons". (And I think it's worth noting that Usenet traffic can still propagate quite nicely via sneakernet, a seriously useful feature in certain locales. Not everyone is so fortunate and wealthy as to enjoy high-speed IP connectivity free of tampering, throttling and DPI.) But that's not really relevant here. The flooding propagation model of Usenet is quite different from the model used by mailing lists. (And if something like DMARC were used there, it would limit article propagation from users at example.com to example.com's immediately-adjacent neighbors only, clearly not a desirable property.) ---rsk _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
