💾 Archived View for bbs.geminispace.org › u › satch › 20918 captured on 2024-12-17 at 15:24:33. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: "So I Read the Netnews Specs"
@clseibold let’s get GMAP wrappped up!
Oct 16 · 2 months ago
So I Read the Netnews Specs — Two things in the internet world have always fascinated me: newsgroups and mailinglists. I didn't grow up in the BBS world of the 1990s, but the idea of distributed messaging among multiple different hosts led me to experiment with a lot of different federated/distributed protocols and networks. Mailinglists, on the other hand, take an already ubiquitous network, email, that is not nearly as held down by binary sharing, copyright infringements, illegal activity,...