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