Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today...

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, alt.fan.usenet
Subject	Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today...
Date	2024-08-20 10:01 +0200
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, yeti wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>
>> Out of curiousity, how did they do discovery in those ancient times?
>> Was it word of mouth, or did they have something more sophisticated?
>
> <https://tldp.org/LDP/nag/node192.html>
>
> I've no idea how uptodate this information still is.
>
> My UUCP (over port 540 over Tor) experiments only connected some own
> guinea pigs and I wired every neighbour into the config of every other
> one.  So a full graph.  That sure won't fit "playing" with lots of
> neighbours well.
>
> When nobody wanted to join and(!) because of the config complexity, I
> switched to playing with SMTP directly over Tor, but that turned out to
> be as lonely as my previous UUCP experiments.
>
> UUCP can use a phonebook like file and route mail based on that.  I
> think we would need that if we want to connect more than a minuscule
> amount of neighbours.
>
>
> When UUCP is mentioned 3 times in a thread, typically someone else will
> show up and paste a standard text snippet about NNCP into the thread.
>
> Maybe NNCP really has some tricks UUCP now should learn, but I don't use
> Go, so I was not in the mood for a closer look yet.
>

Interesting! Thank you very much for the information. With todays compute 
power, I wouldn't discount the phone book method entirely. I think it 
scales better than one might think. On the other hand, keeping it up to 
date and distributing it might be more of a challenge perhaps.

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