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   Message 19,796 of 21,759   
   Johanne Fairchild to Richard Kettlewell   
   Re: If you were to design a netnews prot   
   13 Aug 24 22:34:24   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   Richard Kettlewell  writes:   
      
   >> Just a thought experiment:   
   >> if you could/had to make something like a NNTP 2.0 (with no need for   
   >> backwards compatibility) and server and client software for it today, what   
   >> would it be like?   
   >> In terms of specifications, technologies used, user interface, etc.   
      
   [...]   
      
   >   * All messages signed by author and originating server (supporting   
   >     reputation management)   
      
   Can you elaborate on this?  You'd like to bind each message to the   
   author-public-key and his NNTP server?  So that everyone who he is and   
   which server he used?  (Can you give an example of how you'd do that?)   
      
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