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Re: [Asrg] SMTP & NNTP ?

2003-03-19 13:45:16
Alan DeKok wrote:
list-ietf-antispam(_at_)faerber(_dot_)muc(_dot_)de 
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claus_F=E4rber?=) wrote:

Netnews is quite efficient at one-to-many communication and does not
suffer from spam as much as email does.

  ... because of the design of the protocol.  You've got to request
netnews.  Spam gets forced down your throat.

You have to request email too. NNTP and SMTP->POP is effectively the same w.r.t. push/pull. They don't differ in this regard. It's just as easy to not request email as to not request netnews. Problem being is that email is used for 1-to-1, and "not requesting" email is considerably more unpleasant than not requesting netnews.

The only difference in this area is that NNTP already supports a certain amount of browser-requested-yet-server-side-implemented filtering. Not well, and not well supported by existing browsers.

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