Re: Reading news via WWW browsers

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 1 Mar 93 13:40:55 -0800


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