@item Ease of setup @tab Medium @tab Hard @tab Easy @tab Hard
@item Mail transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes}
-@item News transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab No
+@item News transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item File transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
-@item Remote command execution @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab No @tab No
+@item Chunked files @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
+@item Remote command execution @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Resumable downloads @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Packets prioritizing @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Mail compression @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Packets encryption @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Metadata privacy @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Packets integrity check @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
-@item Sneakernet friendliness @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
+@item Sneakernet friendliness @tab No @tab Partially @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@end multitable
like GoldEd, not an ordinary email client. Moreover, there is no
out-of-box encryption and strong authentication involved.
- NNCP requires single YAML file editing and nothing more.
-
-@item News transmission
- SMTP does not know anything about news, NNTP and so forth. Neither
- does NNCP, because they are not used very much nowadays.
+ NNCP requires editing of single Hjson @ref{Configuration,
+ configuration file}.
@item File transmission
SMTP could transfer files only Base64-encoding them -- this is very
inefficient.
+@item Chunked files
+ FTN software can automatically split huge files on smaller chunks,
+ to reassemble it on the destination node. NNCP also supports
+ @ref{Chunked, that feature}, especially important when dealing with
+ small capacity removable storage devices.
+
@item Packets prioritizing
UUCP and NNCP will push higher priority ("grade" in UUCP
terminology) packets first. You mail will pass, even when many