On 2009-07-02 20:28, walt wrote:
[snip]
The basic problem overwhelming usenet is that people are using it for file
sharing, a purpose for which it was not intended and is not well suited.
Maybe (definitely!) not, but uuencode/decode have been around for a
loooong time...
But you knew that already :o) It would be an interesting novelty for news
servers to offer a well-compressed zipfile of article headers, say, for each
calendar month or week.
That's probably what giganews does with it's Accelerator Proxy.
--
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-Bringer
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