INN over IPFS?

[Martin Burmester]

Hi,

Am 06.12.2024 um 10:39 schrieb Jason Evans:
> On 12/4/24 2:00 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> As has been discussed (at length) on other lists, IPFS is meant for 
>> FILES.
>>
>> As such, just about anything and everything that has Protocol in it's 
>> name is not natively compatible with a file system as it's 
>> communications mechanism.
>>
>> You could probably store a traditional news spool on IPFS, but it 
>> would almost certainly be inherently single point of update to avoid 
>> issues with overview databases and article numbers, etc.
>>
>> But you probably could get traditional news clients that read from the 
>> raw news spool to read articles.  I have no idea how the posting would 
>> go because that will almost certainly involve <something> Protocol 
>> <maybe something else>.
> 
> I was thinking the same thing. I really like the idea of distributed 
> news articles but this would mean writing something from scratch. If you 
> were to go down this rabbit hole, I would suggest reading the main NNTP 
> RFCs to get a good understanding and then go from there. I think you 
> would definitely need to introduce a universal article identifier and I 
> don't know if the "message-id" could do that.

What you can probably do is write out uucp batch files periodically and 
store them in ipfs, other systems could look regularly and import the 
batches via rnews. Wouldnt have to reinvent the wheel but start from 
send-uucp and adapt it. Its one way only though.

Cheers,
Martin