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The ISP, and most people tend use use one of a few large ISPs.
by PrimeMcFly 3y ago
The ISP, and most people tend use use one of a few large ISPs.
- jjav 3y agoAn ISP can run a Usenet node and many did, but that's in no way necessary or inherent to Usenet. It is entirely peer to peer distributed. You can run your own with multiple unrelated peers for redundancy. I used to do that for most of the early 90s, it works great. There is no central repository anywhere. An analogy is to say email is centralized because may people use gmail. Yes many people do but that's in no way necessary. Everyone can run their own if they like. For the entire decade of the 90s through several employers, I never was part of an organization which even had a central email server! Everyone sent and received email directly to/from their personal workstation.