I'm thinking about putting together a new spec for a Usenet/Gnutella type service. I hoped you guys might give me some feedback here before I proceed any further with the idea. I was less than sober when I first thought of this, so I wanted a sane mind to look at the idea and see if it sounds worthwhile.

Problem: my ISP sucks and wont let me download hundreds of MB of naked women from my favorite newsgroup. In fact, they don't carry ANY binaries groups at all. Whats it mean? Usenet access has become too restricted and it needs to be less centralized.

Solution: Use Gnucleus as a framework, and add a new extension to the Gnutella protocol to handle usenet-style features.

I think I have a workable plan to implement a newsgroup-like system that runs over existing Gnutella networks. I think a system like this would be much more difficult to restrict because it doesn’t rely on centralized servers sitting at your ISP.

Anyone have any comments? Criticisms? Other ideas? Links to someone else considering the same thing?