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Re: list and usenet



Mike McCarty writes:
> But you completely ignored my statement that networked computers have
> existed since the early 1960s at least. The OP was claiming that Usenet
> had some sort of priority.

Only as a peer to peer network.  Early networks were distinctly
hierarchical.  Usenet is completely decentralized.  Usenet news uses a
flooding algorithm that requires only cooperation between adjacent hosts
and UUCP mail used source routing optimized by pathalias.
-- 
John Hasler



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