On 8/16/02 10:54 PM, "Jeffrey Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > >> [...] USENET fails to scale because it sends every byte every where in >> case anyone anywhere might want it. > > I always thought that Usenet was a nice combination of push and pull that > scales remarkably well when it should. If you got the binaries out of USENET, and had some way to deal with rogue sites and trolls, USENET wouldn be downright wonderful. Unfortunately, since neither is really true, it's become unusable in the mainstream unless you live in one of the backwaters that hasn't become intolerable yet, or you filter like crazy, or both. Binaries are horribly inappropriate on USENET, and the lack of any content policing mechanism means that the people who thrive on inappropriate content have driven most of the rest of us off the system. If you can't police the trolls, the trolls will win. And have. > But I completely agree with you that it would be stupid to confuse > presentation format with archive format. Particularly where the > presentation transformation is not easily reversable. And that's been the problem to date. It all gets mixed together, and when you have a hammer in your hand, everything turns into nails. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after
