Three servers, A, B and C are discussing: A: I got a new message from some idiot called Kim. Whee! B: Hey A, got any new messages for me? A: Yep, check out this idiot LOL OMG WTG XDDDDD B: lol C: Hey! What are you lol'ing about? C: Hey B, go any new messages for me? B: LOL sure here's one from Kim :DDDD B: Hey A, got any new messages for me? A: Yep, here's one from Kim LOL OMG :DDDDD C: Hey that's like yesterday's news, got that already from B kthxbye(); And that's how messages propagate, asynchronously around the usenet network. The biggest problem about usenet is that while it's easy to get a message in circulation, it's very hard to delete it afterwards for historical reasons. And since you couldn't reliably delete messages, you couldn't delete spam, and spam eventually killed Usenet. - Kim |
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