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   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:17:11 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:43:57 -0000 (UTC), CtrlAltDel wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Sir Lawrence, you are going to be hard-pressed to convince any but the   
   >>> most wide-eyed and gullible that Usenet is, in fact, the Internet.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Hmm.  Let's see.  I can access Usenet via the NNTP protocol on   
   >> TCP port 119.  That sure sounds like "Internet" to me.   
   >>   
   >> In fact, Usenet, just like ftp, used to accessible within browsers.   
   >>   
   >> I suspect that this ignoramus buffoon actually meant to claim that   
   >> Usenet is not the "World Wide Web."   
   >>   
   >   
   > I forgot to mention that Usenet has it's own URL scheme.  To access   
   > Usenet just enter into your browser:   
   >   
   > news://   
   >   
   > But most, if not all, current browsers, will choke on that. The fault,   
   > of course, is the browser as this is a perfectly legitimate URL scheme.   
      
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