On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:21:38PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > That's a rather intriguing concept, though I might look at starting > from UUCP & NNTP, or perhaps BITNET, rather than the FIDO model - > the software is a bit more mature, and UUCP at least is still > supported. Mobile devices could associate themselves, via local > WiFi, when in range of each other, and messages would just flow > through normal news exchange protocols.
I'll second this. Usenet is still the most successful experiment in distributed communication, it's resource-frugal (after all, it was developed at a time when we thought 1200 baud modems were speedy), it's highly resilient, it's delay-tolerant, it's scalable, it's agnostic about transport, and it supports undirected broadcast communication -- something useful when trying to evade traffic analysis. It supports bidirectional mail<->news gateways, it runs on minimal hardware, and among other things, it could be used to provide prolific news feeds (albeit with some delay) into areas that are heavily censored. ---rsk -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
