[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

[geni]

2009/5/31 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> HTTP uses TCP/IP, not UDP/IP.  Your comment was "If it doesn't work over IP
> then it isn't the internet".  If you'd like to change that to "If it doesn't
> work over TCP then it isn't the internet", fine.  But it probably wouldn't
> be difficult to run the Wave protocol over UDP.  Then you could send one-way
> Wave updates through a one-way satellite feed, or a one-way OTA feed.  Add
> in a low-bandwidth or intermittent connection to send in the other
> direction, and you can get an email account better than most people had in
> 1995.  Remember when BBSes used to subscribe to UUCP email?

However that has expensive upkeep costs and is reliant of functioning
infrastructure. Books do not stop working just because somebody broke
SAT-3/WASC.


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geni