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"Andreas S. Kerber" <ask@eb6.srv.ke3.speedkom.net> writes:

> Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
>> Question---if I have access to the Internet, say TCP access, why would I
>> use UUCP and not NNTP directly?
>
> NNTP: upstream server is pushing articles to your NNTP server. This
> requires your NNTP server to be reachable (preferably permanently).
>
> UUCP: upstream server ist collecting articles in batches (specifically
> for you) and you poll these batches when ever you want. Then you feed
> these batched to your local NNTP server service instance.
>
> back in the day, connecting to the internet was often metered by the
> minute and you connected e.g through dial-up. most people did not have
> a permanent (round the clock) internet connection back then, and UUCP
> was a great and affordable way to send and receive email and network news.

Interesting.  But could all of this be done with NNTP?  I mean---you
connect, pull it all with NNTP and disconnect.  But I bet it's how
efficient the transfer are.  It seems intuitive to me we can sort of
compact it all in a package, download, unpack and deliver it to the NNTP
server.  Am I in the right direction here?  Even without compression, it
seems more efficient to do it in one package.

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