> articles go out from a seed source and are quickly seeded throughout the world.

That's a wonderful idea. We'd need a new protocol for distributing these "articles". We could call it Network News Transfer Protocol or something. You could tag your article according to categories and subcategories, and people could subscribe to these different news groups. We could use ssl/tls for authentication of peers.

It probably wouldn't take too long to develop such a protocol; I bet we could have it done by 1986.

Excellent trollface RE Krebs getting took down.