On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:37:24 -0800 (PST), Wanderer wrote: > > I don't know what a netnews protocol is. I use Google Groups to look > at usenet.
Just in case you're interested, the Network News Transfer Protocol, NNTP, is used to distribute posts over Usenet, a worldwide system for passing messages among computers that appeared in 1980. Since many of us are still using it to follow newsgroups, Lo, 37 years later, it must surely have succeeded beyond its creators' wildest hopes. I suspect I'm not the only fossil here who gets kinda misty contemplating NNTP's history. -- To email me, substitute nowhere->runbox, invalid->com. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
