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Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu> Thu, 31 October 1996 21:14 UTC

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From: Brian Kantor <brian@nothing.ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available
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> I think the original point that was made is that NNTP was designed
> originally for news transfer, not reading. 

That is not true.  I don't know where this oft-repeated error originated,
but it's wrong.

We designed the NNTP protocol to provide news reading services to diskless
workstations.  Transfer was added much later in the design.
	- Brian

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