Re: Hey Geminispace

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From: D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>

Subject: Re: Hey Geminispace

Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 16:29:11 -0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <dog_cow-1653496149@macgui.com>

meff wrote:

That said, NNTP is pretty crufty as a protocol. It has both

stateful and stateless bits. The existing clients all speak variations

of the RFC. SMTP has pretty similar problems, from what I can tell. It

doesn't have a concept of hierarchy the way NNTP (loosely) does.

What I noticed recently is that many Internet application protocols are

fundamentally file transfer protocols: I have a file on my machine, and I

want to store or access it on another machine.

NNTP

HTTP

SMTP

POP

IMAP

FTP (obviously)

Gemini

Gopher

.... and others are all fundamentally file transfer

]DF$

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