ietf-nntp New Chairs for NNTPEXT

[Brian Hernacki]

Mario Valente wrote:
> 
> At 17:56 04-08-1997 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> >I'm pleased to announce that Stan Barber and Ned Freed have agreed to
> >take over as co-chairs for NNTPEXT.  Their appointment takes effect
> >immediately.
> >
> >Please welcome them!
> >
> 
>   My welcome to both of them and may I take the opportunity to
>  present myself.
> 
>   I'm newmaster at Esoterica, a portuguese ISP, and I'm participating
>  in both this WG to redefine RFC977 and in WG to redefine RFC1036
> 
>   Since I only recently joined the mailing list I would like to pose a
> question,
>  related to an idea of mine on the redesign of NNTP and Usenet: currently
>  the RFC states that for a SENDME or ARTICLE request, the *entire* article
>  should be sent. I have this idea whereby only the headers would be sent
>  and stored and the body of the articles requested on demand. This would
>  lead to changes in both NNTP and probably in the format of the messages
>  themselves.
> 
>   Has this been discussed already ? If yes under what subject, since I was
>  unable to find any info on the mailing list archive ?
> 
>   If needed I can expose further on my idea. Its quite simple in RFC terms,
>  quite simple in implementation terms (at least INNwise) and would save
>  tons of bandwidth and disk space.

Somone once mentioned to me that they consider one of the strengths of
NNTP/Usenet is that there is never just one copy of something. It makes
it alot harder for the Scientologists when they need to sue 10,000
admins to remove content.

--brian
Opinions are mine, not Netscape's