Comment by 🐐 satch

Re: "So I Read the Netnews Specs"

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@clseibold let’s get GMAP wrappped up!

🐐 satch

1 hour ago

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So I Read the Netnews Specs — Two things in the internet world have always fascinated me: newsgroups and mailinglists. I didn't grow up in the BBS world of the 1990s, but the idea of distributed messaging among multiple different hosts led me to experiment with a lot of different federated/distributed protocols and networks. Mailinglists, on the other hand, take an already ubiquitous network, email, that is not nearly as held down by binary sharing, copyright infringements, illegal activity,...

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