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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!canon.co.uk!tim
- From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Secret Service--Agents of Social Darwinism?
- Message-ID: <92Nov10.2057.14215@crash.canon.co.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:57:26 GMT
- References: <1dfr06INNfuk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov7.164416.3752@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Sender: Tim F O'Donoghue <uunet!canon!tim>
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre,talk.boring.nntp,news.software.nntp
- Organization: me myself and i
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- tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
- :
- | Do the terms "SMTP", "NNTP" and "TELNET" have any meaning to you?
-
- Ah, lessee, NNTP specifies a protocol for the distribution, inquiry,
- retrieval, and posting of news articles using a reliable stream-based
- transmission of news among the ARPA-Internet community. NNTP is
- designed so that news articles are stored in a central database
- allowing a subscriber to select only those items he wishes to read.
- Indexing, cross-referencing, and expiration of aged messages are also
- provided. This RFC suggests a proposed protocol for the ARPA-Internet
- community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
- Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
- Shall I continue?
-
- Tx. [all my own work]
- --
- Tim F O'Donoghue <tim@crash.canon.co.uk> <uunet!canon!tim>
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