Message-Id: <9212020231.AA20968@pixel.convex.com> To: "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu> Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: Re: Ideas for the future In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 92 19:57:14 EST." <9212020057.AA18034@soccer.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 92 20:31:39 CST From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com> Has anybody else noticed how much HTTP is starting to look like NNTP? I think NNTP does most of what we need, especially when restricted to nntpd's xfer mode -- then it's stateless. * it's a distributed database * with MIME, it's multimedia * it works. * it's telnet-based, and easy to mess with. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to send NEWNEWS commands to a hypertext server? Just a thought... By the way... see RFC977 (ftp://nnsc.nsf.net/rfc/rfc977.txt) for the whole story. Dan