[Python-Dev] Rework nntlib?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Sep 14 23:22:59 CEST 2010


On 9/14/2010 4:40 PM, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:43:46AM -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>> We got rid of gopherlib a few years ago (deprecated in 2.5, presumably gone
>> in 2.6).  I suspect the NNTP protocol has a greatly diminished user base as
>> well, GMANE's presence notwithstanding.
> 
> NNTP is *very* considerably less dead than gopher.

That's an interesting metric. Would you like to list the extant
libraries implementing protocols that are *not* "*very* considerably
less dead than gopher"? ;-)

regards
 Steve
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