Comment Re:Usenet C-SPAN? (Score 1) 197
If you were to archive the entire usenet archive you would run into the needle in the haystack problem. I mean *please* compare the amount of *useful* messages that flow through usenet servers each day to the amount of (spam|p0rn|trolls). Such an effort to archive would result in a huge unmanegable database of worthless history of money making schemes and XXX sites.
And what about all the illegal content posted to usenet daily? It is bad enough to have the MPAA and FBI surfing for illegal http:// material. Think of the lawsuits and corporate uproar that a public protected database of usenet posts containing copyrighted software and other ilicit materials.
On the technical size, does anyone know how big Usenet grows daily? The terabytes of data in a proposed archive would be very unwieldy to maintain. Even archving selected groups could combat this problem, but then you run back into the censorship issue of who decides which groups are useful and which are not.
The incentive of years of net culture would not be worth the effort put forth by all the spammers and trollers each day
And what about all the illegal content posted to usenet daily? It is bad enough to have the MPAA and FBI surfing for illegal http:// material. Think of the lawsuits and corporate uproar that a public protected database of usenet posts containing copyrighted software and other ilicit materials.
On the technical size, does anyone know how big Usenet grows daily? The terabytes of data in a proposed archive would be very unwieldy to maintain. Even archving selected groups could combat this problem, but then you run back into the censorship issue of who decides which groups are useful and which are not.
The incentive of years of net culture would not be worth the effort put forth by all the spammers and trollers each day
