# RE: NEWS via NNTP and HTTP more URL stuff

hallam@alws.cern.ch
Tue, 15 Mar 1994 11:08:37 +0100

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    Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 11:08:37 +0100

    Message-Id: <9403151008.AA04369@dxmint.cern.ch>

    From: hallam@alws.cern.ch

    Subject: RE: NEWS via NNTP and HTTP more URL stuff

>I fear what was a reference to a news article is becoming an underlying
>mechanism for writing news agents.

News agents and servers for news clients. Yes. NNTP is a very poor interface
for the user-client. Using HTTP could speed up reading of a the articles in
a newsgroup by a factor of six on my machine.

>Oh where, oh where, is the goals statement?

If it exists it in there.

News Mail and FTP are all much more powerful when integrated. I do not
want a separate newsreader. I want to read and post News and Mail from
a browser. Thats the sort of browser I am writting and so the functionality
is going to be created. If I don't do it someone else will.

The question is will we have a standard interface or will there be more
than one incompatible interpretation of a URL?

Phill Hallam-Baker

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