Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

[Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>]

Paul Ebersman wrote on 25/03/2020 16:59:
> And scary as it sounds, UUCP over SLIP/PPP worked remarkably 
> robustly.
uucp is a batch oriented protocol so it's pretty decent for situations 
where there's no permanent connectivity, but uncompelling otherwise.

nntp is a non-scalable protocol which broke under its own weight. 
Threaded news-readers are a great way of catching up with large mailing 
lists if you're prepared to put in the effort to create a bidirectional 
gateway.  But that's really a statement that mail readers are usually 
terrible at handling large threads rather than a statement about nntp as 
a useful media delivery protocol.

Nick