[nntp going down in the history books with aol!] was Re: News Reader Question

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> I thought nntp died years ago.  Replaced by web forums (along with
> mailing list) in which the moderators have somewhat control over.
> idiots killed the news servers.
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> dead protocols:  nntp aka news, gopher, archie, plain text telnet
> (except for local servers), and others?
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> plain static html sites are almost dead.
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> I recommend you use firefox to read mail from a news to web gateway
> site.  I think it will be much faster.
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> nntp going down in the history books with aol!