On Mar 8 2005, 12:54, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
An email is forever if your server lets you keep a
large enough
back-log or
if you download it to your machine and it never ever
fails (who ever
hear of
a computer having trouble anyway).
NNTP is forever through people like google groups.
Only for groups on public servers, which peer with other Usenet
servers. If we're talking about private servers, google groups doesn't
enter the equation.
The true problems with NNTP are: not everyone has
access to Usenet
will and
those that do would have to talk their Usenet provider
into including
it.
Only if the group(s) is/are public, and propagated through Usenet.
They don't need to be; lots of groups are private and restricted to a
few servers (eg the local York Uni groups, the tin newsreader groups).
I love NNTP and have several groups I follow on it. I
see no
practical way
to switch to Usenet. The list works, it may not be
perfect [...]
Agreed :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York