[298] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What netnews needs that LISTSERV gots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Tue Mar 5 12:00:14 1991
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1991 10:40:32 CST
In-Reply-To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
On Mar 5, 9:17am, Kent England wrote:
}
} Sounds to me like we could get the features of LISTSERV into
} netnews by adding a couple of features to newsgroups:
}
} Create an option to make subscription to a newsgroup moderated
} by a group administrator. This sounds like .newsrc needs to be
} managed by the newsreader instead of the user.
}-- End of excerpt from Kent England
This has been discussed in the context of the NNRP proposal. NNRP is the
Network News Reader Procotol, a sister protocol to NNTP, which is strictly
client/server oriented.
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Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine
