On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
I don't know if Jim meant to send that reply about Usenet; the sentence was chopped off in the middle, just after the glaring incorrectness :-)
Jim Choate replied to Ray Dillinger:
Usenet is an example of a system which is fully distributed. Actually this has the same limitations as the 'Napster' model, it requires a centralized
Ah, not sure why that did that... But, more to the point - you shouldn't try to read minds and draw conclusions from sentence fragments. You are not a good mind reader. .... a centralized group of servers to distributed not only content but the indexes. The only real distinction between the two is where the content resides, not a significant distiction since the system still has centralized servers. But more importantly the original claim which you just jumped right over about the intellectual property being somehow different between USENET and Napster and that if Napster fell down it would take significantly longer to recover than USENET is simply bogus. More 'let's give Jim shit because he keeps poking holes in our favorite thoeries' than 'stick to the topic at hand'. ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------