🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6pjeh1$13p$1@machaut.medieval.org>,
	Todd Michel McComb <mccomb@medieval.org> wrote:
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| In article <6pjd18$79r$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
| 	  Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> wrote:
| >
| >What "plan" are you speaking of?

| >Such issues aside, I still maintain that any such change to existing
| >usenet *practices* would take place extremely slowly
|
| I think we're closer to a "backbone cabal" right now than we had
| been for several years.

Heh ... shades of "seismo" ...


| The transport (that the user doesn't really
| see) moves fairly quickly in quasi-unison.  If something isn't
| propagated there, it will be extremely spotty, but there will
| definitely be random pockets for years.

Ah.  The old "drag them kicking and screaming" strategy.  Should be fun
to watch ... :-) ...!


| I expect munged posts to be dropped from all the big sites within
| about 2 years.  (I call that soon, because I reject "Internet time"
| as a valid concept. :-) )

Do it in 18 months, and you can blame any "fallout" on y2k :-) .

Seriously though, do you not see a performance problem with the massive
number of authentications that will need to be performed?

/kim

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