From: anton.txt@gmail.moc   
      
   D to Salvador Mirzo:   
      
   > > The web is like that.  A website sends you to another   
   > > one.  This is decentralization.  No NNTP servers send   
   > > you to another one, except those that have peers, but   
   > > then it's as if they're all the same.  My idea is to   
   > > make NNTP servers more like the web.   
   >   
   > That would be a nice take on NNTP. A kind of "federated"   
   > nntp model, as opposed to todays standardize and "global"   
   > version. Federated is perhaps not the right word for it.   
   >   
   > I think I see your vision here... we could think of the   
   > local nntp servers as small communities, you could opt-in   
   > to make them public, keep them private, or just register   
   > them with a search engine if you want.   
   >   
   > That model also would avoid all the newsgroup hierarchy   
   > stuff, you just name your groups what ever you want, and   
   > you can decide to setup peers with other communities you   
   > know.   
      
   Is the difference from the current Usenet so big?  There   
   already are many servers, public and private, and peering   
   with one another.  news.tilde.club is an example of a small   
   NNTP community.   
      
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