Paging Dr. Memory. Dr. Memory, please report to your designated undisclosed location.

[elfs]

Hey Nathan, remember the old saying, "Those who do not remember Usenet are doomed to reimplement it. Poorly"?

Meet Salmon.

Arrrgh.

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

I'd hope I'd remember that saying, since I'm pretty sure I coined it. :)

In re Salmon: huh. On the one hand: oh god, using thirty shitty layers of RSS+XML+HTTP to half-solve a problem that NNTP kicked out of the park 25+ years ago with 10% of the over head. On the other hand, at least they seem to have put some thought toward the authentication problem, which is nice. But on the gripping hand, they're apparently confusing authentication with abuse prevention, to which I can only say: h0 h0 h0 h0 h0.

I should probably sit down and actually read the spec. Oh god.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

OH GOD WHAT'S THIS HOOK DOING IN MY MOUTH?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

ROFL. I know the feeling.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

I especially liked the "abuse resistant" part.

I don't care if you put the damn Berlin Wall around it. "Enormous audience you can advertise to for free" is far too tempting a target for people with no morals, or even the slightly morally handicapped for that matter.

[ewhac.livejournal.com]

Seems to this untrained eye that you could accomplish the same thing by adapting the Sender Policy Framework to NNTP (assuming it hasn't already been done).

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, SPF has been a raging success, with over 2% of domains using it!