From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:21:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519152152.GB18575@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46b366130905182313l1dc757cdr47449749da930efe@mail.gmail.com>
Jason Stevens scripsit:
> There is also a wealth of information on googles "groups" with
> information from the 1980's taken from usenet backup tapes, it would
> be 'neat' to have them online in some kind of NNTP server that tin or
> pine could actually read... So you could browse this massive
> 'database' of unix knowledge from an ancient unix (well one that has
> either local news with all the google groups, or a TCP enabled
> unix...)
Client-server, as opposed to peer-to-peer, NNTP support is very expensive
and painful at large scale, which is probably why Google doesn't provide
it (disclaimer: I work for them, but not on Groups, and I don't know
anything about Groups that isn't public knowledge). AFAIK no one has
ever written an event-driven NNTP server that suppots NNTP reader mode;
even innd spawns a separate process when contacted by a non-peer.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-19 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-19 4:42 Aharon Robbins
2009-05-19 6:13 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-19 15:12 ` M. Warner Losh
2009-05-19 15:28 ` Michael Kerpan
2009-05-19 15:21 ` John Cowan [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-05 3:48 Brian S Walden
2009-06-05 4:18 ` Larry McVoy
2009-06-05 11:42 ` Jim Capp
2009-06-05 14:40 ` John Cowan
2009-06-05 16:06 ` Ian King
2009-06-05 18:29 ` John Cowan
2009-06-06 5:20 ` Ian King
2009-06-05 18:40 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-21 20:39 Brian S Walden
2009-05-15 16:48 Tim Newsham
2009-05-15 17:27 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-15 18:09 ` Al Kossow
2009-05-19 2:20 ` Rafael R Obelheiro
2009-05-19 21:31 ` Warren Toomey
2009-05-19 21:49 ` John Cowan
2009-05-20 0:43 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-20 4:56 ` Derek Peschel
2009-05-20 5:16 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-20 8:21 ` Tim Bradshaw
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