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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!   
      
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