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RE: [sharechat] aus.invest

From:	"Gavin Treadgold" <gav@rediguana.co.nz>
Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:56:24 +1300

> > Yes, although this is the 'web interface' way to view it.   
>  Most ISPs 
> > have a 'news server' which hosts these discussion groups.   I'm not 
> > really sure why it is called a news server. 
> 
> Back in the day, before the web, when I were a lad and New 
> Zealand's total internet connection to the rest of the world 
> was a 14k4 modem, there was news, aka USENET. Generally it 
> did comprise news, albeit of a techie/computer science sort. 
> "news" is a historical term.

Actually, the protocol that USENET operates by is called NNTP - Network News
Transfer Protocol. It is the protocol by which news is transferred from
server to server, and client to server. 

Cheers Gav


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