Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 3/29/20 1:46 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > Joe Greco wrote on 29/03/2020 15:56:
> >
> > The concept of flooding isn't problematic by itself.
> > Flood often works fine until you attempt to scale it.  Then it breaks,
> > just like Bj??rn admitted. Flooding is inherently problematic at scale.
> For... what, exactly?  General Usenet?  Perhaps, but mainly because you
> do not have a mutual agreement on traffic levels and a bunch of other
> factors.  Flooding works just fine within private hierarchies, and since
> I thought this was a discussion of "free collaborative tools" rather than
> "random newbie trying to masochistically keep up with a full backbone
> Usenet feed", it definitely should work fine for a private hierarchy and
> collaborative use.

AFAIK, Usenet didn't die because it wasn't scalable. It died because 
people figured out how to make it a business model.

Mike