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Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP

From	immibis <news@immibis.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mail.uucp
Subject	Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP
Date	2023-12-16 16:03 +0100
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On 9/10/23 15:00, Marco Moock wrote:
 > Am 10.09.2023 um 19:49:20 Uhr schrieb Mima-sama:
 >
 >> are there any downsides?
 >
 > You can't handle mail with UUCP with that many mail servers that
 > currently exist without some more central servers.
 >

Could you adapt a routing protocol such as OSPF?

The OSPF *concept* (not the full protocol) is quite simple: nodes gossip 
amongst each other about the topology of the network (all nodes and 
links). When a node sends a packet, it finds a path based on the network 
topology. (Actually, routers pre-calculate all possible paths, but mail 
is less frequent so it could find paths as needed)

On modern CPUs, it should scale to at least 10000 nodes, probably more. 
After that, you can start thinking about ways to form a hierarchy. A 
bigger problem is that all nodes have to be trustworthy.

If mail is passed alongside news, topology update messages could already 
be passed along by the news network, just like newsgroup control 
messages are.

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introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Mima-sama <mi@masa.ma> - 2023-09-10 19:49 +0800
  Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-09-10 15:00 +0200
    Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2023-12-16 16:03 +0100
      Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-16 13:37 -0600
        Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-16 20:58 +0100
          Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-16 14:27 -0600
            Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-16 22:43 +0100
              Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-17 00:07 -0600
                Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2023-12-18 09:06 +0100
                Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-18 08:46 -0600
                Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2023-12-19 15:04 +0100
                Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-19 09:04 -0600
    Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2023-12-25 15:06 -0800
      Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-02 00:38 +0100
  Re: introducing the new federated anarchist networking protocol: UUCP cp@ruraldashnetwork.com (CP) - 2023-09-22 14:46 +0000

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