Usenet NEWS vs. Bittorrent

[Hal Duston]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:55:47PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- On Tue, 7/8/08, Jeffrey Watts <jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > and just admiring its technological advantages to the end
> > > user.  I support NetNews' text-only groups, but I
> > > merely admire the system of binary distribution through
> > > NetNews.  I'd still want text-only NetNews to stick
> > > around, and if the price is binary NetNews vanishing, then
> > > so be it, despite its technological advantages to end users
> > > in the sharing of binary files.
> > >
> > > You've obviously never run a production INN server.
> > > There is NOTHING admirable about how it works.
> >
> > There's plenty admirable from the end user side of things, regardless of
> > what you've seen on the server end.
> >
> 
> No one cares but you.  Just shut the fuck up already.

I can state with absolute certainty that you are incorrect.  I will
however defer to your desire above, as I have done for the most of
the last year or more.

> -- 
> Chris

Thanks,
--
Hal