On 10/10/2014 3:15 AM, softwatt wrote: > On 10/09/2014 11:40 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> Didn't you just describe Usenet? > > Hmm, I am not sure I have. > I have no experience with Usenet, but after some searching, I think that > Usenet is a lot more complex than this. Feel free to correct me if i'm > wrong though. > > The main difference I found (quoted from Wikipedia): > > When a user posts an article, it is initially only available on that > user's news server. Each news server talks to one or more other servers > (its "newsfeeds") and exchanges articles with them. In this fashion, the > article is copied from server to server and should eventually reach > every server in the network. >
Yup. It's known as a "mesh network". In most cases, it only takes a few minutes for a message to get around the world. I also read this mail list via NNTP (easier to keep track of threads), and often I will get messages on my Usenet server before I get them via email. I just can't respond via the newsgroup. > > Also, do any Usenet clients implement PGP? > Since many of the Usenet clients are also email clients, they implement PHP as well as they do with email. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5437c2ab.2000...@attglobal.net
