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[Unknown W. Brackets]

Walter,

Well, maybe, but I know that the developer who worked on the WAP and 
I-mode interfaces for the web forum software I developed was *extremely* 
concerned about the fact that he paid by like the kilobyte.

He also used it (after developing it) quite a bit, and my understanding 
was that it was fairly lightweight.

It didn't have avatars (which I think are cruft; I don't use them on 
forums), signatures (also cruft, in emails and newsgroups too.)  I think 
it (but I'm not sure, I didn't have a phone at the time) automatically 
stripped second-level quotes too, which NNTP probably wouldn't do.

Is NNTP even gzipped?  I expect it isn't (and can't find any 
contradiction in a quick peek at the RFCs), which would mean it's 
definitely not impossible that HTML could win.  But, I haven't really 
read those RFCs, so I could be wrong.

-[Unknown]


On 11/29/2011 12:20 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/28/2011 11:08 PM, Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> In contrast, I haven't a clue how to use NNTP on my iPhone. Go figure.
>
> There is an NNTP newsreader app on the iphone, but the reviews on it say
> it sucks. I haven't tried it.
>
> With the teeny screen on the iphone, I would suspect that NNTP would be
> a big winner, as it is minimalist (and it is also pretty light on
> bandwidth consumption).