29 Mar
2020
29 Mar
'20
10:01 a.m.
Bjørn Mork wrote on 29/03/2020 13:44:
How is nntp non-scalable?
because it uses flooding and can't guarantee reliable message distribution, particularly at higher traffic levels. The fact that it ended up having to implement TAKETHIS is only one indication of what a truly awful protocol it is. Once again in simpler terms:
How is nntp non-scalable? [...] Binaries broke USENET. That has little to do with nntp.
If it had been scalable, it could have scaled to handling the binary groups. Nick