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From: nick at foobar.org (Nick Hilliard)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:01:04 +0100
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BjÃ¸rn Mork wrote on 29/03/2020 13:44:
> How is nntp non-scalable?

because it uses flooding and can't guarantee reliable message 
distribution, particularly at higher traffic levels.

The fact that it ended up having to implement TAKETHIS is only one 
indication of what a truly awful protocol it is.

Once again in simpler terms:

 > How is nntp non-scalable?
[...]
 > Binaries broke USENET.  That has little to do with nntp.

If it had been scalable, it could have scaled to handling the binary groups.

Nick

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