On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote:
Lots of people download files from FTP servers but that's a wholly different culture and use case than Usenet provided for in practice. And who said that binaries (whether legal or illegal) was not a big part of Usenet at its height?
Anyone who argues that NNTP is the most efficient thing around? I guarantee that for large files FTP is more efficient, and that when one person is sending a file to a small number of other peopl, FTP is dramatically more efficient. I guess NNTP binary distribution is more efficient in some theoretical world where exactly the right subscriptions are distributed to exactly the right people via local transit servers, with no reposts. We can probably just write the volume of such transfers off as noise in the real world.