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		nickpsecurity on Aug 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise? I'll be darned. Would you say they fix its core problems vs other protocols? Or try to do incremental improvements?

M2Ys4U on Aug 8, 2015 [–]

It's being done in a completely backwards-compatible manner - clients have to opt-in to new protocol features so it's more along the lines of incremental improvements.

nickpsecurity on Aug 8, 2015 | [–]

Gotcha. Makes sense.

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