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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: News: anywhere vs. NNTP: to-server, eh?

David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> Wed, 20 August 1997 07:03 UTC

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From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Re: News: anywhere vs. NNTP: to-server, eh?
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:39:34 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <33F87792.825DC165@parc.xerox.com> from "Larry Masinter" at Aug 18, 97 09:25:54 am
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> 
> What is currently widely deployed is 
>    news:[//host/]newsgroup
> 
> rather than 'nttp:'. So I suggest we just try to write up what people
> are using rather than continuing to push on "nntp:".

I think this is only people using Netscape browsers.  Microsoft Interenet
Explorer 3 doesn't understand this particular abuse, and nor do
any of caching proxies available from my office (not that I can find
a caching proxy that understands nntp: either, but at least the reject
it without getting confused).


(MSIE 3 tries to launch Microsoft News, which tries for the default
news server.)


Personally, I think any such interpretation of news:// should be enabled
by an option which defaults to disabled, to just make people aware that the
URL is broken.

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