On 3/29/20 1:46 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Joe Greco wrote on 29/03/2020 15:56:
The concept of flooding isn't problematic by itself. Flood often works fine until you attempt to scale it. Then it breaks, just like Bj??rn admitted. Flooding is inherently problematic at scale. For... what, exactly? General Usenet? Perhaps, but mainly because you do not have a mutual agreement on traffic levels and a bunch of other factors. Flooding works just fine within private hierarchies, and since I thought this was a discussion of "free collaborative tools" rather than "random newbie trying to masochistically keep up with a full backbone Usenet feed", it definitely should work fine for a private hierarchy and
collaborative use.
AFAIK, Usenet didn't die because it wasn't scalable. It died because people figured out how to make it a business model. Mike