Hi, I really really want to abstain from that thread. So a new one:
Gene Heskett wrotei in 'mailing list vs "the futur"': > [...] NNTP [...] > To fully support it needs 2000 times the bandwidth of an email server. But not because of the transport protocoli or message format. NNTP belongs to the same breed of reasonably concise protocols as the mail protocols POP3 and SMTP. The message formats too are very similar: A list of header lines and a message body. Of course, if it is about newsgroups with videos or many large pictures, you get clients sucking data for hours. But a news server which imposes the same restrictions as most mailing list servers would not cause more traffic or storage need. While googling for debian-user as newsgroup i found https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg00735.html where Miles Fidelman points to nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user i.e. newsgroup linux.debian.user which should be on most news servers (because it is of modest size). Newest message on the server which i can use: 638790 <wleov-8v...@gated-at.bofh.it> from : Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> date : Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:10:01 +0200 size : 2724 bytes in 60 lines subject: Re: mailing list vs "the futur" My mail box seems to be about half an hour ahead of the news server. Have a nice day :) Thomas
