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Subject: Re: If you were to design a netnews protocol today...
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:00:50 +0200
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, yeti wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't think everyone needs to have the full global phonebook.
>
> Swapping VCards individually may be the way for fast updates.
>

True. I like that you challenge the underlying assumption that everyone 
needs access to everyone. It is true that this is very often not the case.