Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!pesv From: pesv@enea.UUCP (Peter Svenson) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Hyper-Usenet Message-ID: <2483@enea.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 87 12:27:47 GMT References: <2395@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: pesv@enea.UUCP (Peter Svenson) Organization: ENEA DATA Svenska AB, Sweden Lines: 25 I have to react on this, I just have to! this is the most sane thing I have read on this net for over a year. Seriously. But the storage problem .. jeez. What if you did it like this (minor potentially unusable idea) ; Every text written stayed at it's own site, and only references would be sent, I mean ONLY. Then, when you really wanted to see what the original article referred to, you issue an "expand" command, which, like mail or something, fetches all the related articles *for this specific message* and expands everything into a comprehensible form, that THEN can be traversed via hyper-something. Obviously this would require all the world to be connected to one large ethernet, but that where it's pointing at sooner or later anyway, isn't it? Flaming? -- /Peter (turbo) Svenson pesv@enea (UUCP) enea!pesv@seismo.arpa (ARPA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- She chuckled. "Don't you wish." The sky tilted, and he saw green horizon. "Twenty thousand meters. I'm going to nuke out."