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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
[email protected] (Vadim Antonov) writes: > ... > In other words - USENET cannot be fixed with technological improvements as > long as the root problem (admission control) is not solved. Improving > transmission or storage systems would only let spammers to send more spam > for free. ...which is why my proposal didn't involve multicast and assumed that each newsgroup would be authoritatively sourced by a well known server or mirrored cluster of servers. spam or offtopic postings, to be deleted, would only need to be deleted in that one place. then the hierarchical nntpcache graph would simply "not find" the trash rather than needing to be told to remove it as is done today with "full nntp" servers. the other motive here is implicit moderation: no newsgroup which could not find a sponsoring server or mirrored cluster could continue to exist; any such server or cluster which was known to never remove trash would eventually become uninteresting to discerning parties (e.g., me) while still being completely usable by undiscerning parties. > Therefore, i'd say it is time to declare USENET defunct. It was fun while > it lasted. "death of usenet predicted. film at 11."
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