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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Discussing this with you is pointless. You're technically wrong. Look at the paths of messages on any large news server and you'll appreciate the number of servers with which they exchange news. The old, generally hierarchical nature of news servers doesn't exist anymore.
In any case almost no news server today honors cancel messages and in the case of any individual news server if one server they exchange news with drops a group it's likely that another news server they exchange news with will still carry that group.
On profitability and finances I haven't said anything, so don't put words in my mouth champ.
You really don't get it do you ? This project is Stop File Lockers not Stop Usenet, not Stop Tubes or anything else you care to throw out there.
The title of this thread is Killing off File Lockers. We have stated numerous times that the project is limited to file lockers yet you keep coming back day after day saying we should be targeting other types of piracy.
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I wont deny that there is a peer to peer aspect of how content gets sent from news server to news server but its not what one might see on torrent network. Teh internets don't go mad sending articles to everyone and where. There is still a topology to it somewhere. It really depends on the interconnects, the neighbors, whether ISPS have peering agreements with them and would permit article transmission through their private POPS (Point Of Presence). Why would an ISP pay to transfer HUGE amounts of data over their network to other networks when they can do with privately with those that they peer with. There is most certainly a topology to it.