9 May
2018
9 May
'18
5:21 a.m.
usenet became a primary channel for sharing music, pictures and
videos. files were split into chunks, and then refreshed as chunks.
Its like p2p before bittorrent with little or no in-band feedback.
(you would see people begging for fragment 101/1001 to be re-sent)
this reached the point where, by article count and bytecount, far more
of USENET was binary target mime attachments than discourse.
-G
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 May 2018 at 19:16, Lyndon Nerenberg
<lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
I was curious about this too - do yo just detect encoded attachments and
delete them?
-Henry
On May 8, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
I think there are a number of people / hobbyists that run (text only)
news servers (like myself) doing exactly that.
I don't understand what a "text only" news server is. A "news"
server
schleps "news" around via NNTP. The protocol is "text," as is SMTP
for
mail. Is there a "binary" variation?