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.
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John Hasler
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