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From: terryc on 31 May 2010 23:01
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:33:30 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:


>> Now Bill Gates & Co. is going to shut down all microsoft.public
>> newsgroups.
>
> Because hardly anyone knows anything about usenet.

Actually, Bill Gates/Ms can not shut down MS related newsgroups.

Usenet has no central distribution point in its design and so long as
people keep posting in that newsgroup and the various servers keep
swapping messages with each other, the use/news group continues to exist.

From: z1 on 1 Jun 2010 03:47
terryc wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:33:30 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:
>
>
>>> Now Bill Gates & Co. is going to shut down all microsoft.public
>>> newsgroups.
>> Because hardly anyone knows anything about usenet.
>
> Actually, Bill Gates/Ms can not shut down MS related newsgroups.
>
> Usenet has no central distribution point in its design and so long as
> people keep posting in that newsgroup and the various servers keep
> swapping messages with each other, the use/news group continues to exist.
>

so where are the hard drives that store it?
From: terryc on 1 Jun 2010 05:54
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:47:42 +1000, z1 wrote:

> terryc wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:33:30 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Now Bill Gates & Co. is going to shut down all microsoft.public
>>>> newsgroups.
>>> Because hardly anyone knows anything about usenet.
>>
>> Actually, Bill Gates/Ms can not shut down MS related newsgroups.
>>
>> Usenet has no central distribution point in its design and so long as
>> people keep posting in that newsgroup and the various servers keep
>> swapping messages with each other, the use/news group continues to
>> exist.
>>
>>
> so where are the hard drives that store it?

On the news server that you read it from.
Each news server effective receives and feeds post to and from the
configured other news servers. Effectively they each share the messages
posted around.



From: Rod Speed on 1 Jun 2010 06:33
terryc wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> Now Bill Gates & Co. is going to shut down all microsoft.public newsgroups.

>> Because hardly anyone knows anything about usenet.

> Actually, Bill Gates/Ms can not shut down MS related newsgroups.

Wrong.

> Usenet has no central distribution point in its design

Doesnt need to have one for that.

> and so long as people keep posting in that newsgroup and the various servers
> keep swapping messages with each other, the use/news group continues to exist.

Utterly mangled all over again.


From: Rod Speed on 1 Jun 2010 06:36
z1 wrote
> terryc wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote

>>>> Now Bill Gates & Co. is going to shut down all microsoft.public newsgroups.

>>> Because hardly anyone knows anything about usenet.

>> Actually, Bill Gates/Ms can not shut down MS related newsgroups.

>> Usenet has no central distribution point in its design and so long as people keep posting in that newsgroup and the
>> various servers keep swapping messages with each other, the use/news group continues to exist.

> so where are the hard drives that store it?

On the individual usenet servers.

There never were any central hard drives, thats the whole point of the design of usenet.


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