Comment by quilnux

I guess what I mean is, there is a lot of things that Usenet does because back in the 90's we didn't have a lot of the technology we have today. Today there are more solutions then there was which means Usenet doesn't need to be the host for things like binaries, and the like, which tend to be most of the storage consumption problems that would keep people from self-hosting on the existing network. If we started over, not utilizing binary storage and a few other things, would that not make Usenet a better service with less storage requirements? Or am I just missing it completely?