On 28/08/2018 19:23, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 8/28/18 1:48 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote: >>> Lots of people download files from FTP servers but that's a wholly >>> different >>> culture and use case than Usenet provided for in practice. And who >>> said that >>> binaries (whether legal or illegal) was not a big part of Usenet at >>> its height? >> >> Anyone who argues that NNTP is the most efficient thing around? I >> guarantee that for large files FTP is more efficient, and that when >> one person is sending a file to a small number of other peopl, FTP is >> dramatically more efficient. I guess NNTP binary distribution is more >> efficient in some theoretical world where exactly the right >> subscriptions are distributed to exactly the right people via local >> transit servers, with no reposts. We can probably just write the >> volume of such transfers off as noise in the real world. > > NNTP is exceptionally efficient for large scale message distribution - > when compared to, say, a mailing list server that sends a message per > subscriber.
Indeed. And ISPs' historical problems Usenet's massive bandwidth due to binaries does not change the fact that NNTP is very good for message distribution. -- Mark Rousell
