> This is completely wrong : > Usenet is not push, but pull (you go grab/mirror newsgroups > from another server). Thus it's not push, but human routed pull > (humans are supposed to route smarter (if they have a newsgroup from > one server, they don't grab the same group from another server).
Well, OK, the protocol is nominally pull, but the nature of the communication is still broadcast push: anyone can post a message to any group, and it is broadcast around the world whether or not anyone wants to read it. The only controls on propogation are at the server level and not the user level (i.e., if I'm not subscribed to a mailing list, my server never sees the mail--but it still gets all the news for groups I'm not subscribed to). -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
