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news: vs nntp:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Tue Jan 10 04:26:26 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 10:20:34 +0100
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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
It's been a while, but I think it was a matter of keeping things
separate. "news:" could be implemented by any protocol at all, and
isn't tied to NNTP. However, once you start specifying a host and a
port, you really have to say what protocol you mean, too.
