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Posted by: Olavi Petri (Wednesday 14 December 2005, 12:55 PM)

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Mesh networking may bring about a renaissance of Usenet.
With the disappearance of AOL from Usenet the signal to noise ratio has improved by several orders of magnitude. I think one can say now that the 'September that never ended' is finally over. That is a boon to everyone, but in particular to the developing nations and regions with intermittent connectivity.

Over the decades a lot of ideas about improving Usenet have come forth. Between now and Q4 2006 there may some time to implement them. The peer to peer nature of Usenet is ideally suited for mesh networking and areas with intermittent connectivity. There was a succesful project to use a bus with Wi-Fi and UUCP (or something simliar) to provide connectivity. NNTP or its successor would fit right into such an environment.

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