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posted by takyon on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:35AM   Printer-friendly
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:20PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:20PM (#201007) Journal

    Yeah, but that concept may be above their visionary capability. Anyhow the problem with Usenet is that the servers involved are too easy to attack because they are all known and users can be too easy to track because all messages contain a full list of visited servers and user account that posted it. Now that capacity is so much cheaper and faster it might pay to skip the uuencode/base64 multipart images and just have it inline. At least so one can show others a solution to an integral or how the latest circuit board looks.

    Seen any serious effort to get anything like this running?

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  • (Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:25PM

    by VortexCortex (4067) on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:25PM (#201290)

    Seen any serious effort to get anything like this running?

    If you mean a fundamental shift to distributed networking as a step in getting this running, then there's the Named Data Networking group [named-data.net]. Funneling traffic into an endpoint (websites) was always a bad idea, that's why caches were built. Once you can query surrounding caches and pull from your neighbor or whomever has the data rather than from a specific IP address (decouple content from location), then many such distributed systems will be the norm. We've already kludged together something like this with etags, expires headers and caches, but it's time to do things right.

    Usenet was nice, but it dosen't quite fit the bill as more efficient distributed systems are now possible.