Re: Reading news via WWW browsers
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 13:40:55 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: putz.parc@xerox.com
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Reading news via WWW browsers
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putz.parc@xerox.com writes:
> I agree. I like the browsers be generic (although with some of
> the new UI features being discussed) and not be burdened by
> so many communication protocols. Maybe even FTP should have
> to go through a gateway WWW server.
Yeegh! When we have unlimited-bandwidth networks, then we can do
that, but until then, going through a gateway for something as
ubiquitous as FTP would be a mistreak IMHO....
Marc