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> Its distribution model required vast amounts of storage and bandwidth even back then It didn't, as long as your server didn't distribute binary newsgroups, w
by wott 5y ago
> Its distribution model required vast amounts of storage and bandwidth even back then
It didn't, as long as your server didn't distribute binary newsgroups, which where the only thing requiring a substantial amount of space. Furthermore, servers had no obligation to keep a long retention history, and could limit it to a few months if they wanted so.
- ruslan 5y agoBesides, text messages compress very well. Yes, I vote for NNTP. In my previous life I used to run a local NNTP/Usenet/Fidonet gateway, storage was not an issue at all, but bandwidth was.