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Decentralized would probably be a better word than distributed.

• throwaway847t 3y ago
  Each instance could also choose which groups to distribute. Many ISPs didn't carry all groups (such as binary groups and groups in other languages) to save money, or due to the content itself (porn, warez, MP3). Sometimes they would have delays because some groups were only synced a few times a day. This created a market for NNTP servers that provided full content for a monthly fee and sometimes even with a spam filter