[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Jun 22 20:00:42 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:37:12PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > It is, but that wasn't even my most pressing consideration in picking
> > it.  I was more interested in the asychronous flooding nature of NNTP
> > dissemination, which seems perfectly suited for this: you have a
> > change, you send it, and everyone gets it as soon as possible.
> 
> "Flooding" is a good term; most newsgroups I've looked at lately have  
> become extremely efficient spam distribution mechanisms, but not much  
> good for anything else. ;)

Hee.  :-)

People say that, but I spend some time in tech groups, and I don't see
as much of it as is asserted.  (I haven't recently, but they said that
just as much 4 years ago when I did...)

Cheers,
-- jra
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