[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Forum

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Mon Jul 26 17:01:26 EDT 2010


Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 7/26/10 15:56 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
>   
>> My personal preference would be for NNTP. It seems to handle threading much
>> better. You can easily "kill" threads you're not interested in, and
>> thereafter not bother downloading them. You can use several different client
>> programs. And so on. However, last time I voiced this opinion, people
>> started talking about something called "usenet", which I've never heard of...
>>     
>
> Usenet *is* NNTP.
>   

So I'm told. But it appears that some people believe that NNTP *is* 
Usenet, which is not the case. I use NNTP almost every single day, but 
I've never seen Usenet in my life...



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