On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:
> It would be interesting to come up with a protocol that combined
> the robust flooding algorithm of USENET with a way to verify the
> source (i.e. prevent spam).
I'm not sure what problems you see with Usenet that would prevent it being
used for what yo
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> In theory, news would be more rebust than mail, because of its distributed
> nature and it should be possible to make news work without relying on the
> DNS.
USENET/news has a few properties which make it reliable. The most
important is the fl
