ietf-nntp New Chairs for NNTPEXT
Mario Valente
mvalente at esoterica.pt
Thu Aug 7 05:52:06 PDT 1997
>> related to an idea of mine on the redesign of NNTP and Usenet: currently
>> the RFC states that for a SENDME or ARTICLE request, the *entire* article
>> should be sent. I have this idea whereby only the headers would be sent
>> and stored and the body of the articles requested on demand. This would
>> lead to changes in both NNTP and probably in the format of the messages
>> themselves.
>>
>
>Somone once mentioned to me that they consider one of the strengths of
>NNTP/Usenet is that there is never just one copy of something. It makes
>it alot harder for the Scientologists when they need to sue 10,000
>admins to remove content.
>
There wouldnt be a single copy of an article. There would be a single
copy if no one in all the world decided to read that article and so that
article would only reside on the server where it was posted; every other
server would only have the headers. If *someone* anywhere in the world
read that article, there would be two copies: one on the server where the
message was posted and one on the server that requested it; an N copies
for each N servers that requested it.
C U!
MV
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