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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by wott on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:00PM (#28558268)
> Its distribution model required vast amounts of storage and bandwidth even back then

It didn't, as long as your server didn't distribute binary newsgroups, which where the only thing requiring a substantial amount of space. Furthermore, servers had no obligation to keep a long retention history, and could limit it to a few months if they wanted so.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by ruslan on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:57PM (#28558876)
Besides, text messages compress very well.

Yes, I vote for NNTP. In my previous life I used to run a local NNTP/Usenet/Fidonet gateway, storage was not an issue at all, but bandwidth was.

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