[hackerspaces] spread spectrum para-Internet?

[James Arlen]

Or UUCP…


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On 2012-02-16, at 11:22 AM, The Doctor wrote:

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> On 02/16/2012 07:35 AM, Walter van Holst wrote:
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>> I think that is about what the ambition should be: something 
>> Fidonet-like. But without the pesky rules of that forgotten
>> network.
> 
> I've been reading up on the FidoNET protocol lately because I've been
> considering writing an implementation to use with Project Byzantium to
> help bridge backhaul gaps.  Older store-and-forward bundle
> transmission protocols are worth another look I think, but I also
> think that they would be application specific.  Something like FidoNET
> would be ideal for (say) synching blog or image board posts across
> multiple nodes, but perhaps less so for a twitter-alike app.  There
> are also protocols that solve some of the same problems as FidoNET in
> use in some areas right now, like Forban and the Dandelion Message
> Service.
> 
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