From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 17:22:29 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: <5FC9A20A-22A3-4EAF-8227-49D5839A9F76@orthanc.ca> References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180508163643.GA16384@mcvoy.com> <201805081706.w48H62gd027214@freefriends.org> <1525802016.2020176.1365125208.2706032F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <00c501d3e702$65f60850$31e218f0$@ronnatalie.com> <5FC9A20A-22A3-4EAF-8227-49D5839A9F76@orthanc.ca> Message-ID: On 05/08/2018 05:16 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > I don't understand what a "text only" news server is. A "news" server > schleps "news" around via NNTP. The protocol is "text," as is SMTP > for mail. "Test only" means no binary files. (UUCP or MIME encoded). No images / no warz / no pr0n / etc. I'm sure that something does occasionally slip through. But it should be such a rarity that nobody notices. It also means that a number of the *.bin.* (et al) newsgroups are omitted. "Text only" is just a generic classification and way of saying that I'm not going to provide binary content. Read: Go get that from one of the big professional players. ;-) > Is there a "binary" variation? There is the NNTPS variant of running NNTP over SSL (TLS), but that binary component is just the transport, not the protocol that runs through it. That being said, I think there there may be a tiny bit of binary to NNTP. Or at least every time I've looked at it with tcpdump / Wirershark there was something about the replies from the receiving server that make me think that ACKs / NAKs may be binary. But chances are good that I'm not paying enough attention and misinterpreting something. -- Grant. . . . unix || die -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3982 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: