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Old May 19th, 2002
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101 ways to rain on your parade

1. Usenet works because each server takes lots of groups and stores ALL the messages, without censoring them. It's hard to restrict content without someone screaming censorship because of the total content of all the groups.
2. Files are broken up and you complete them on your end, another argument to censorship.
3. You can do this on gnutella now, just nuber your files part 1,2,3 and put them in "rar" format or something like that.
4. Usenet needs T3 connections and a central server because of the massive content that moves around.
5. Files on usenet don't stay for more than 24 hours, they get pushed off the storage drive for newer messages, thus it's hard to sue anyone to remove them, because they are already gone.
6. You can do that on gnutella now, just remove the files every other day or rotate them every few days. If idiots would just run Linux instead of some lame worthless OS, they could easily write a perl script and make it a cron job every day and do this automatically. Would take like 20 minutes to write the program. But instead you have to sit and wait so you can pay some geek out there to make a program for you to do this and pay him $20 for it, really stupid. No, it's really, really way too stupid.
7. There are uncensored usenet feeds available for a small fee, from sources outside your ISP and your ISP can't do anything about it.
8. If more people took files off of usenet and put them on gnutella, plus leave their crashalot OS up for more than 2 hours, you might have a nice collection of files on gnutella.
9. Sorry, but I am tired of you people holding back gnutella and other real good computing things we all could be doing because you are running a crappy OS. Even Apple went with a unix style OS, they know a good thing when they see it. When will you people figure it out? What is it going to take?
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