This was (not quite) how bits of sub-saharan Africa got netnews in the early
days. Store-and-forward, UUCP links over dial-ups, and the occasional mag tape
couriered over.
paul
> On Dec 29, 2019, at 9:11 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> And this is why, despite all the disdainful remarks labeling such
> things as "antiquated", mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups are vastly
> superior to web sites/message boards/et.al. when it comes to facilitating
> many-to-many communications between people. Why? Well, there are many
> reasons, but one of the applicable ones in this use case is that their
> queues can be written to media, physically transported in/out, and then
> injected either into an internal or external network seamlessly modulo the
> time delay. And because the computing resources required to handle this
> are in any laptop or desktop made in the last decade, probably earlier.
>
> If you're trying to get information in/out of a society that is raising
> network barriers to realtime communication, then you need methods that
> don't rely on a network and aren't realtime.
>
> ---rsk
>
