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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: cvsup - the next generation multi purpose netw. distrib. system (even for news ?!)
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-09-24 13:00:47
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> John Polstra  <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:
> >One other point about replacing NNTP with CVSup is that, politically,
> >it would probably never happen.  NNTP, with all its flaws, is the
> >universal standard.  It would take a lot to get people to start
> >using anything different.  I think that, in the short term, people will
> >move toward a streaming version of NNTP.  In the longer term, the whole
> >netnews system will have to be replaced with something radically
> >different.
> 
> But every news transport link is point to point, and a LOT of places
> use things other than NNTP server mode. I use UUCP and NNTP reader
> mode, for example, and most ISPs would rather feed their corporate
> clients with something the *clients* can control so they don't have
> to spend support hours patching newsfeeds files.

I'm working on a peerless, multi-view, bomb proof, authenticated object
distribution store (working name "The Ring"), that is in many respects
similar to to news. Its err, kind of a replacement for dns and protocol
dependent references, organising long lived information into subject
domains, instead of administrative domains.  That's the theory anyway ;)
Anyone wanting to be involved in such a project, drop me a line.

-- 
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely  exercised for the good of its victims  
 may be the most  oppressive.  It may be better to live under  robber barons  
 than  under  omnipotent  moral busybodies,  The robber baron's  cruelty may  
 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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