ad-hoc wifi news transport

Posting this here (was on comp.misc)

I was researching NNTP and came across this project:

https://github.com/nntpchan/nntpchan/

Using NNTP as a base protocol for other services. Personally, I think
it's a great idea, and it got me thinking.

Wireless ad-hoc mesh networks are an interest of mine. Normally the
purpose of the network is to route traditional TCP/IP protocol stacks
on top of whatever routing technology (like babel). But for radios,
they broadcast out naturally, it seems like a service like news/store
and forward message sending would be a natural fit.

The idea is to use a smart flooding algorithm, like uflood
(https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~jaya/uflood_thesis.pdf) and skip all the
routing/high speed packet delivery problems and just flood news
articles over it. I think it would be a good fit.

Usenet is already decentralized, decentralizing the infrastructure seems
like a cool idea. If I were going to do it, I'd add some kind of
proof-of-work scheme to prevent spamming the network. Bandwidth would
be low due to the air-time of a large mesh network being saturated, but
I see that as a plus, prevents abuse (spamming binaries on the net).

It's half baked, but I wanted to put my thoughts out there and see if
other work has already been done on something like this.