Re: ad-hoc wifi news transport

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 19:21:45 -0400, Toaster <toaster@dne3.net> wrote:

On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:13:46 -0300
Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:

bp@www.zefox.net writes:

Ethan Carter <ec1828@gmail.com> wrote:

Toaster <toaster@dne3.net> writes:

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My original idea was to leverage wifi's characteristics to propagate
articles in a flooding manner. It bypasses all of the complexity of
ad-hoc wifi peering and uses all of the strengths of a radio based
broadcast medium. It'd be anonymous and virtually uncensorable. (and
free transport with no configuration or centralized anything)
Using the internet, I'd just use NNTP. UUCP would work for serial links
or the like, but NNTP already exists, so why not use it?
But don't stop there, imo NNTPchan should have leveraged the existing
usenet network instead of having another separate network of
incompatible servers. Just make a top level hierarchy and use that for
the service data, or under alt, who cares.
I think the problem is going to be getting people to use it, as it
stands alot of people like having control over their own little
communities. Bad news is good data can just disappear forever. So many
lost geocities pages full of content gone. :(

some of those geocities sites (sans ftp-linked content) may still be
available on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/*/geocities.com

https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocities.com/

many old web sites can still be at least partially accessed this way