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- I have a CD-ROM (Netnews/CD from Sterling Software) that has a big
- pile of news in it -- and I'd like to support reasonable access to
- it via WWW. However; the current support for NNTP reading in WWW
- assumes that there's a single NNTP server through which all
- "news:" access will go, so it's not straightforward to support
- a second system which might have an alternative access to a news spool.
-
- I'd suggest extending the syntax to read as follows
- news:comp.sys.foo comp.sys.foo on default system
- news://nntp.archive.msen.com/comp.sys.foo nntp.archive.msen.com
- news://nntp.archive.msen.com:1990/comp.sys.foo (on port 1990)
- with similar extensions for referencing individual articles.
-
- --Ed
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