XPost: alt.comp.linux   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Mr. Man-wai Chang  wrote:   
   > On 2/2/2026 5:08 PM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > >   
   > > I thought UseNet was just an outsourcing/spreading of the D.A.R.P.A.   
   > > projects into the Common peoples environments!!   
   > >   
   > > D.A.R.P.A. apparently started back in Feb 1958.   
   > >   
   > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA   
   >   
   > I believe DARPA-net became internet. Usenet is a separate messaging   
   > network, speaking NNTP not HTTP, nor FTP.   
      
     Now - and since quite some time -, Usenet is indeed mostly using NNTP,   
   but as I mentioned, Usenet predates internet and hence NNTP. For quite   
   some time it used UUCP and other transport methods. For example, we used   
   RFA (Remote File Access) over a (non-TCP/IP) Ethernet network and UUCP   
   over an X.25 network. (And I used SOUP! :-)) And it's *still* perfectly   
   possible to use FTP, UUCP, etc. between peers. After all, Usenet is just   
   about sending plain-text files from one place to another.   
      
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