free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

Sun Mar 29 12:44:48 UTC 2020

Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> writes:

> nntp is a non-scalable protocol which broke under its own
> weight.

How is nntp non-scalable?  It allows an infinite number of servers
connected in a tiered network, where you only have to connect to a few
other peers and carry whatever part of the traffic you want.

Binaries broke USENET.  That has little to do with nntp.

nntp is still working just fine and still carrying a few discussion
groups here and there.  And you have a really nice mailling list gateway
at news.gmane.io (which recently replaced gmane.org - see
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/15/news-gmane-org-is-now-news-gmane-io/
for full story)

Bjørn