From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 15:23:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1805081521210.83706@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b32c1a7-69ae-6593-cd01-156f15b87edc@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
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On Tue, 8 May 2018, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> On 05/08/2018 12:35 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>> USENET as an entity is still alive and well.
>
> Indeed. Some might argue that there's a resurgence of Usenet servers. I'm
> just one example that's has decided to run a text only news server. I see
> more of them every year.
>
>> The reason for it might be sharing of warez and porn,
>
> I personally don't object to content leveraging the Usenet infrastructure,
> *as* *long* *as* *it's* *legal*.
>
> I can personally decide if I want to partake / consume in content or not. —
> Obviously my text only news server does not partake in non-textual content.
>
>> but for example, alt.sys.pdp10 still exists
>
> Yep.
>
> I'm showing 164 messages since October 10th 2017.
>
> % ls -1 /var/spool/news/articles/alt/sys/pdp10 | wc -l
> 164
> % ls -l /var/spool/news/articles/alt/sys/pdp10 | grep 2017
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 news news 1463 Oct 10 2017 1
>
>> The problem is, many of us have stopped using it for whatever reason, and
>> certainly don't store/forward much.
>
> Fair.
>
> I wonder how different things would be if various web applications leveraged
> Usenet (NNTP) (or IMAP) as a back end storage for things like blogs / forums.
>
>> Maybe it's time to take it back and get back to the original intention of
>> USENET.
>
> I question if there is really anything to take back. I was active in
> comp.mail.sendmail for years and then stopped when I changed jobs. All I had
> to do was subscribe my news reader and continue like nothing ever changed.
> (Save for the smaller amount of content in said newsgroup these days.)
:(
> I've personally run small news servers with ~10 peers twice. One time years
> ago, and again now I have two news servers. One is on my VPS with a bunch of
> peers and the other is in my house that only peers with my VPS.
>
> If anyone wants to get back into the game, let me know and I'll happily peer
> with you.
I've thought of running a usenet server or servers - I've got a few
servers - but I don't even know about software to do so, let alone servers
to peer with.
> I think that "take back" really directly translates to "use again".
I've never really stopped. xD
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-08 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-08 16:25 Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 16:36 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 16:43 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 17:06 ` arnold
2018-05-08 17:27 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-08 17:42 ` Andy Kosela
2018-05-08 21:27 ` [TUHS] Old Usenet / local communitites Mike Markowski
2018-05-08 17:53 ` [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 18:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 18:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 18:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 19:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 19:09 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:11 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 21:50 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 21:54 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 21:58 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 22:22 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-08 22:32 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 22:59 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-09 2:01 ` Michael Parson
2018-05-09 1:55 ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 20:01 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 21:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 20:54 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 19:05 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 19:35 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:23 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2018-05-08 19:29 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 0:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 19:26 ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-08 19:48 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 20:54 ` Daniel Camolês
2018-05-08 22:55 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 23:18 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-08 23:21 ` George Michaelson
2018-05-08 23:25 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:22 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:37 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 0:54 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 16:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 17:01 ` Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 19:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 21:49 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-08 23:39 ` John Labovitz
2018-05-09 0:08 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-09 0:11 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-09 0:42 ` Warren Toomey
2018-05-09 0:31 ` Bakul Shah
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