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|    yeti to Stefan Ram    |
|    Re: If you were to design a netnews prot    |
|    09 Aug 24 21:38:05    |
      XPost: alt.fan.usenet       From: yeti@tilde.institute              ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:              > If I think my newsreader is acting up today or isn't showing a       > certain feature (like grabbing stuff via Message-ID), I can just       > hop on telnet to the news server and see what's really coming       > from the server or call up the missing feature directly. With a       > binary format, that wouldn’t be as straightforward!              \o/ ____( rlwrap nc newsserver 119 )              --       I do not bite, I just want to play.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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