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From: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>
Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks
Subject: Re: ISC will likely be shutting down FTP access to ftp.isc.org soon (https will remain)
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Timothy C. May <tcmay@netcom.com> writes:
> Keep being historical. This is Usenet, after all. First if you abandon
> FTP, how long will it be before we see a similar letter from you
> abandoning NNTP in favor of Mastodon or some other newfangled,
> censorship-friendly, rent-seeking protocol because of misguided client
> security concerns?

I’m curious to hear what you think about (any of) Nostr, Hyphanet, and
(the new) Freenet.

Kragen