Subj : NNCP
To   : deon
From : Oli
Date : Wed Oct 05 2022 01:40 pm

deon wrote (2022-10-03):

 d>    Re: NNCP
 d>    By: Oli to Exodus on Sun Oct 02 2022 12:17 pm

 d> Hey Oli,

 >> I#M still not sure if it would be possible to replace FTN echomail
 >> with NNCP https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/Multicast.html

 d> I dont think so. A packet today is addressed to a node, so you cant send
 d> the same packet to multiple nodes :( A change in packet format could
 d> allow that though...

That would be a trivial change in the FTN packet format. But I guess it's simpler to replace only the binkp transport with NNCP. And we also could use Netnews format (RFC 5536) with NNCP.

 d> You're normally interested in this stuff - would you use it instead of
 d> tor or BINKPS?

Maybe. I don't have any experience with NNCP and only read the documentation on the website and some blog posts. NNCP with Yggdrasil might be a good replacement for binkp over Tor. I did compile the latest version on the Raspberry. So maybe we could test it with some file transfers.

I wonder why the git repository is down. Can we trust the tar ball from Russia with all dependencies included or might it be compromised? ;)

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