On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:11:23PM -0700, Kurt Cagle wrote:
While I think that the commentary on NNTP is essentially correct -- we are
rebuilding the foundation of NNTP, I want to raise a couple of issues that
may justify just WHY such a rebuilding is necessary.
I started working with NNTP
Doing the aggregation / syndication stuff as NNTP doesn't make much sense
to me. We are creating a web app, it should use web protocols. RSS is
perfect for this kind of things. It forces us to create the network to be
far simpler and open than if we did it with NNTP - and that is a very good
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, zachary rosen wrote:
Doing the aggregation / syndication stuff as NNTP doesn't make much sense
to me. We are creating a web app, it should use web protocols. RSS is
perfect for this kind of things. It forces us to create the
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:10:35PM -0500, zachary rosen wrote:
Doing the aggregation / syndication stuff as NNTP doesn't make much sense
to me. We are creating a web app, it should use web protocols. RSS is
perfect for this kind of things. It forces us to create the network to be
far simpler
I am sorry for misunderstanding what you guys where pushing for. I read
the majority of this thread in a pretty stupored state, and then the rest
of it i read quickly before I rushed off to lunch. I was under the
mistaken impression that there was support for using the actual NNTP
protocol over
Doing the mailinglist as Usenet is a very interesting idea. The problem
is, obviously, spam. But - being able to quickly browse / hop around all
the different mailing lists would be a very useful thing.
I don't think we could use NNTP to do it though unless we used it to just
mirror the mails.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:00PM -0500, zachary rosen wrote:
The issue was mailing lists vs. web boards; you will note that I *said*
that weblogg-y stuff should be syndicated by RSS.
Doing the mailinglist as Usenet is a very interesting idea. The problem
is, obviously, spam. But - being
If the news servers can sync with the mailing lists and
the servers could be managed and payed for by in kind donations
(unnoficial campaigners) then it sounds wonderful to me. Run with it man -
hash it out on the wiki, get some devs, and build the sucker.
thats my advice ;)
-ZAck
On Tue,
