From: snuhwolf@yahoo.com   
      
   Coyo wrote:   
   > If it might be possible to come up with an alternative peering protocol   
   > between Usenet servers besides NNTP. NNTP is based on email, which is   
   > purely a text-based protocol. As a result, binaries need to be encoded   
   > as text, first, because it can be transmitted.   
   >   
   > As things like MsgPack, ProtoBuf and ZeroMQ become increasingly popular,   
   > I wonder if an alternative protocol to NNTP would ever catch on and gain   
   > traction? It seems possible, since Usenet is just a loose decentralized   
   > federation between autonomous systems. Peering is however the two   
   > parties decide on doing it, no?   
   >   
   > Something for me to chew on. Between Usenet and XMPP, an open Internet   
   > forum, social network and chat system is not out of reach. The more   
   > people rely on things like faceboogle, the more closed and inaccessible   
   > the Internet as a whole becomes.   
   >   
   > If people went back to Usenet from Faceboogle and the like, went back   
   > even further than OStatus or Friendica or Diaspora, but back to Usenet,   
   > it would be good for the Internet, though maybe not so good for the Web.   
   >   
   > A unified XMPP+NNTP+OSim protocol would be pretty cool. However, I   
   > suspect it won't catch on unless I'm already considered in the big   
   > leagues, among such august company as Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Stallman,   
   > Linux Torvalds, Bruce Schneier, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.   
   >   
   > But considering how popular Telehash, BitTorrent, Bitcoin, and similar   
   > protocols already are, as well as the increasing popularity of OTR,   
   > ZeroMQ, Protobuf and MsgPack, I suspect I wouldn't be stretching that far.   
   >   
   > Anyway, something to chew on.   
      
   You daft cunt; yer posting this into a DEAD newsfroup. And its decidely   
   un-furry. Post it into news.software.readers or something to do with all   
   that dross you just wrote.   
   HTH   
   HAND   
      
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