Re: New Years Open Apology to Gellman

"Roger W. Farnsworth" <rogerf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The rule relates to the usenet infrastructure, not the clients. Binaries
> take more bandwidth, admin effort and storage space on the thousands of
> usenet hosts. So no. :-)

I've always wondered, though, why Usenet seems so stuck in 1990. All of the
concerns about infrastructure, admin effort and storage space disappeared on
every other part of the Internet (FTP, POP/SMTP, HTTP) years ago. Why? Well,
administration is a hundred-fold earier than it used to be, infrastructure has
improved (the page you sent mentions 2400 baud modems connecting nodes over LD
connections...any current node doing that deserves to die!), and storage space
is so much cheaper (I have 200GB sitting on my desk. Although, 10 years ago
that would be expensive, today it is nothing).

I remember the days, as a developer, when people (on the admin and client
sides) would bitch and moan to no end about the fact that you used any
graphics on a webpage. "All those kilobytes will slow-down and eventually
destroy the Net," I recall hearing. Even in email, it is not uncommon to get
HTML messages, or to attach multi-megabyte files.

So, I guess I still just don't get Usenet's hesitancy to evolve. If it were
really about administative factors, why even carry binary groups at all, or
allow new groups, or even allow posts to be as long as the client wants?

Just challenging the staus quo, I suppose.

--
__o Jonathan Acey Albert, M.D.
_ \<,_ "The art of medicine is in amusing the patient while
(_)/ (_) nature affects the cure." - Voltaire







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