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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
It's already been ruined. It was not, and is not, intended to be a binary file distribution mechanism, and I refuse to use it for this reason or purpose. Converting files to 8 or 7 bit ASCII, chopping it into tiny pieces to handle post length limitations, and then layering on flimsy parity schemes like PAR in an effort to address the fundamental weakness of the design is just horrible.
The replication mechanism is inefficient and non-transactional, there's no deduplication or inbuilt integrity checking beyond TCP, and the whole ASCII thing means everything is at least 20% larger than it would be in a native format.
Bleh. Just awful. A total waste of bandwidth and disk space.
There are better protocols for engaging in intellectual property theft.
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I know this is the "tech talk" category but does anyone else feel as dumb as I do after reading that? Wow. I'm sure this is a fantastic post, but I don't understand 80% of it. Well done!
All I know is I use Supernews, and then used nxbmatrix to find whatever I was looking for. I'm still using supernews, because I know not any other way, but is there an alternative to the other?
Or, (the only part I actually did comprehend) what is a better protocol for this?