usenetthrowa

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by usenetthrowa 11y ago
FreeBSD has a kind, international team of developers. It may be a scary project to contribute to for beginners to open source because it is an operating system, and people have some apprehension about improving operating systems.
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by usenetthrowa 11y ago
Follow-up: > One posts individual messages (like one email) to a group Messages can be posted to more than one group; this is called "cross-posting", much like with email mailing lists. > The end result, with a good news rea
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by usenetthrowa 11y ago
Commercial binary NNTP providers have basically infinite retention at this point, if your content doesn't generate DMCA takedown requests. E.g. http://www.news.astraweb.com/ $10/mo gets you 2660 days (>7 years
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by usenetthrowa 11y ago
I wonder if you could convince cperciva (Tarsnap) to exploit Usenet as an encrypted block store (as a cheaper alternative to S3). > I thought this would be a nice alternative use for binaries on Usenet instead of piracy stuff. But I neve
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by usenetthrowa 11y ago
One-stop shopping and the legal "protection" of not appearing on a bittorrent peer list. (It's still illegal, but less detectable.) The media companies have largely caught on to Usenet and have been issuing automated DMCAs o
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by usenetthrowa 11y ago
Usenet (NNTP) is a protocol somewhat similar to email. Unlike email, the default communication style is in "groups" (sort of like a mailing list for a specific topic). One posts individual messages (like one email) to a group;