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From: Todd Carnes <toddcarnes@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Usenet salvation through p2p -> news server tree delivery scheme retirement
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:09:24 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:49:20 -0700, AD wrote:

> I'm at loss where to post this as the problem seems mostly platform
> independent.
> I had this crazy thought the other day that bittorrent could be used to
> exchange usenet
> traffic between usenet feeds now that we live in the post "!" e-mail
> notation style world.
> 
> You'd have to somehow augment the torrents with the manifests of what
> each server has.
> 
> Well, it won't be a torrent but something else entirely.

Why? Usenet works fine just the way it is.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Todd