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Subject: Re: ad-hoc wifi news transport
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 19:21:45 -0400, Toaster <toaster@dne3.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:13:46 -0300
>Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:
>> bp@www.zefox.net writes:
>> > Ethan Carter <ec1828@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Toaster <toaster@dne3.net> writes:
snips
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>My original idea was to leverage wifi's characteristics to propagate
>articles in a flooding manner. It bypasses all of the complexity of
>ad-hoc wifi peering and uses all of the strengths of a radio based
>broadcast medium. It'd be anonymous and virtually uncensorable. (and
>free transport with no configuration or centralized anything)
>Using the internet, I'd just use NNTP. UUCP would work for serial links
>or the like, but NNTP already exists, so why not use it?
>But don't stop there, imo NNTPchan should have leveraged the existing
>usenet network instead of having another separate network of
>incompatible servers. Just make a top level hierarchy and use that for
>the service data, or under alt, who cares.
>I think the problem is going to be getting people to use it, as it
>stands alot of people like having control over their own little
>communities. Bad news is good data can just disappear forever. So many
>lost geocities pages full of content gone. :(

some of those geocities sites (sans ftp-linked content) may still be
available on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/*/geocities.com
>https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocities.com/

many old web sites can still be at least partially accessed this way