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baudehlo on Aug 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise?

It's more than that. The design of NNTP is much like POP3 - you download entire threads and messages all at once. It doesn't work all that well on the web compared with say IMAP.

davidgerard on Aug 1, 2015 [–]

Yeah, there's a number of reasons. But I do think that's why there's been no good web front end ever.

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