> Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Yep, the nice thing about Usenet was that you could refer to any message by a unique mes

> Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Yep, the nice thing about Usenet was that you could refer to any message by a unique message-id. So the where and how you downloaded those messages was of no importance, the Usenet groups were held together by their message-id and a few other headers. The rest was just federated servers mirroring the content among each other. There was however a lack of security, so nothing would stop you from generating duplicate message-id, faking identities and such. > Of course moderation would remain a nightmare... What I would like to see is moderation made optional and transparent. Just give me a list of message-ids that a moderator deemed filter worthy, but leave it to me if I want to use that filter list or not. Such an approach would also allow third parties to do the filtering.