On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 14:19 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Usenet was (well, is, but it has been dying for a long time)
at 3.2Tb of data a day it's far from dead. > The bad part was that the flood > fill mechanism means every site in the network has to carry *all* > traffic even if no one locally is reading a particular > topic. ... ish. A usenet server could decide on a group by group or heirarchy by heirarchy basis what it wanted to take in a feed. Usenet admins were encouraged to take everything since that kept article propagation strongest. > "Someday" I'd love to create a next generation Usenet that fixed all > this -- I would distribute only "newsgroup announcements" rather than > the newsgroups themselves, make the topic namespace subdivided by > domain names to eliminate the "global namepsace" problem, and use > a bit-torrent like "centrally tracked but peer to peer distributed" > transfer method to eliminate the need for giant news spools. However, > realistically, I'll never have the month to do the work. There is a project there for sure. Usenet isn't broken - it just didn't scale well. Keeping up with that volume of data now has to be done by dedicated companies. I remember when I ran an ISP I siphoned off an almost full newsfeed to my home machine. Something that isn't really possible anymore :-) _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
