Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > Usenet is a perfect example of how to design a push medium > intended to bring down as many nodes on the network as possible > and destroy the value of the medium in the process. Broadcast > Push media are inherently flawed: information only has value when > people want it. Storage and time wasted on information that no > one wants (like over 90% of Usenet) is better spent making the > pull mechanisms more effective. The only "push" medium that > works well is targeted push, i.e., e-mail (with mechanisms to > volutarily subscribe to limited broadcast groups--i.e., mailing > lists). And even that is abused by spammers to the extent of > millions of dollars of wasted bandwidth.
This is completely wrong : Usenet is not push, but pull (you go grab/mirror newsgroups from another server). Thus it's not push, but human routed pull (humans are supposed to route smarter (if they have a newsgroup from one server, they don't grab the same group from another server). Amaury -- Ing?nieur r?seau Esitcom Membre d'APRIL Avoid software piracy, use FREE software. http://sxpert.dyndns.org/cv/cv-2000-03-15.html http://www.april.org _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
