So, I was not born in the Usenet era and honestly would have like to had
what they had - a standard protocol for communication. This exists today
but guess what has happened to it, SPAM, SPAM and more SPAM.

I want an NNTP network and I know many others do as well, I surely
cannot be alone in a quest for a protocol which allows discussions on
topics with any client you want to use. Therefore I want to create a new Usenet, in this proposal I shall refer to it as Usenet-Next as it needs
a name that people can use to relate to this proposal.


So how shall we make our network rid of spam. Well the thing is to be
strict in both the user registration process and the server
configurations and who our servers peer with. I am not well versed at
all in NNTP but that is why I'd like to get you people to mail me
(deavmi [at] disroot [dot] org) so we discuss the setup but also the
rules for the network which will be very strict and lastly how these
things are linked together.


Remember, we are not migrating Usenet but creating our own network, Usenet-Next, therefore we will not have any relation to the Usenet
network or community, the only relation we will have is making them
aware of our new proposal and network.


I would like to save the idea of a distributed network of servers
tossing posts around to create a decentralized but common database of
news - this is Usenet. I would greatly appreciate mail from anyone who
would like to discuss this proposal and do some tests and setup the
network. I would also like to note that I am not making myself the
network king or anything, I just want to start the discussion.


I am sorry for the spam I have caused. But spam is something that is
useless, and this is not spam. I have contradicted myself there, sorry.
I just felt that this is a matter of emergency. I don't want to resort
to terrible centralized web forums, I love Usenet, even for the 2 days I
have been using it but I could not come to terms with and accept the spam.


Sincerely,
Tristan B. Kildaire (Deavmi)
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I want an NNTP network and I know many others do as well, I surely
cannot be alone in a quest for a protocol which allows discussions on topics with any client you want to use. Therefore I want to create a new Usenet, in this proposal I shall refer to it as Usenet-Next as it needs

I agree that having a communication protocol similar to nntp would be desirable. My thought with regards to spam would be to take advantage of public key encryption would would allow tighter moderation/control of message sources. Messages don't necessarily have to be encrypted but they could be signed which means that the sender could be verified or the message would be rejected.

Just an idea.

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I agree that having a communication protocol similar to nntp would be desirable. My thought with regards to spam would be to take advantage of public key encryption would would allow tighter moderation/control of message sources. Messages don't necessarily have to be encrypted but
they could be signed which means that the sender could be verified or
the message would be rejected.

Its a a very good idea. You can create some kind of revocation list and ban
any public key used to sign SPAM messages. If your key is in the list, your messages are ignored by your server in the posting process (And by other servers in case one server is ignoring the main revocation list).

And you don't need to modify current NNTP clients. Your server can do the signing proc once posted. And the signed message can be checked by other servers before proc and store them.

You can create an app to report messages by users, if a message is reported
by for example 30% of users, the key is automatically blacklisted for some
time and if the user sends SPAM again, his key is blacklisted forever. Community self-moderated :)

The main revocation list can also contain a list of hashed IP addresses
to avoid spammer's registration in other servers, etc ...

You can also add an scoring based on interaction. You will never post a response to SPAM, so, you can create a positive scoring based in number of responses by thread, etc.

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