From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2180 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2022 02:24:50 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 29 Jan 2022 02:24:50 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D582A9B598; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:24:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00D395111; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:24:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 33C3A9510A; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:24:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A98CC95109 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:24:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from callcc.thunk.org (guestnat-104-133-8-106.corp.google.com [104.133.8.106] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 20T2OPKl000379 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:24:26 -0500 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id A3506420385; Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:24:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:24:24 -0500 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: Charles Anthony Message-ID: References: <54965199-5023-4F99-AF27-8615E319E302@cfcl.com> <20220127015505.GC10568@netmeister.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 05:59:52PM -0800, Charles Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 17:56 Jan Schaumann via TUHS > wrote: > > > > > Kinda feel like being an Old Fart and joining a > > Facebook group are mutually exclusive. Now if it was > > a newsgroup, perhaps, or a FidoNet BBS, ... > > > > We can do 'forum' on Multics. There's a re-implementation of 'forum' called Discuss[1] that was implemented by the MIT Student Information Board. It has a 'forum' feel, and the ss (subsystem) library provides the CLI interface which is reminiscent of Multics forum. [1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.31.8576&rep=rep1&type=pdf The ss and et (error_table) libraries that were originally written for the Discuss system are still in use today as part of Linux's ext2/3/4 userspace utilities, e2fsprogs. (The debugfs program uses the ss library, as does a few regression test drivers for some unit tests). The ss library is also used for the Kerberos v5 Administration Server. - Ted