Re: lamers on IRC

[Emanuel Berg]

Thomas Lord wrote:

> Every user had a theoretical capacity to operate their own
> host or to shop around for one who carried the alt groups
> they preferred. Of course, the whole thing being P2P, hosts
> upstream of a given host could choose to shun it and hosts
> could shop around for their choice of upstream hosts.

Uhm, "upstream host", is that another computer that receives
to the same feed as you so thus gets your posts or what is it?

> Google used its economic power and social influence to first
> centralize what was left of mainstream netnews and then to
> kill it off.

Well, you can tune into nntp.aioe.org with Gnus this very
instant and see how useful it is. But killed - no.

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