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  • Support NNTP along with webbrowser

    1 33.33%

  • Just the browser is good enough for me!

    2 66.67%
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Thread: nntp protocol

  1. Oct 24th, 2002, 12:22 AM #1
    abhijit
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    Arrow nntp protocol

    Hi,
    How about supporting nntp access to these forums?

    -Abhijit
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  2. Oct 24th, 2002, 09:25 AM #2
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    It's not stored in a way conducive to NNTP access, in the database.

    The overhead to support it (including all the smilies, sigs, code sections, etc.) would be phenomenal
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