[151805] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Mar 30 23:58:19 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:57:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4F765F18.60806@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> How many of you realize that JOPES (Joint Operation Planning and
> Execution System), used by the Pentagon for command and control at the
> Joint Chiefs level, uses classified newsgroups for distributing
> operations plans and orders?
>=20
> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
>=20
>=20
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The NNTP protocol can be used for lots o=
f things and not just public newsgroup discussions. For a company that has=
a lot of offices distributed around the world there could be many applicat=
ions for it. It would also be pretty handy for emergency response for majo=
r natural disasters, too, for asynchronous communications between people, d=
epartments, etc. It lends itself easily to the forming of ad hoc teams and=
there is even access control possibilities with various groups of users ha=
ving access to various hierarchies. It is a great tool that can be used for=
a lot of things without having to re-invent the wheel for collaboration, i=
nformation sharing, etc.
There's nothing obsolete about the NNTP protocol. Usenet might be obsolete=
, but NNTP can be quite useful.
