19 May
2009
19 May
'09
9:21 p.m.
Jason Stevens scripsit:
There is also a wealth of information on googles
"groups" with
information from the 1980's taken from usenet backup tapes, it would
be 'neat' to have them online in some kind of NNTP server that tin or
pine could actually read... So you could browse this massive
'database' of unix knowledge from an ancient unix (well one that has
either local news with all the google groups, or a TCP enabled
unix...)
Client-server, as opposed to peer-to-peer, NNTP support is very expensive
and painful at large scale, which is probably why Google doesn't provide
it (disclaimer: I work for them, but not on Groups, and I don't know
anything about Groups that isn't public knowledge). AFAIK no one has
ever written an event-driven NNTP server that suppots NNTP reader mode;
even innd spawns a separate process when contacted by a non-peer.
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