From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 15:23:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: <1b32c1a7-69ae-6593-cd01-156f15b87edc@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180508163643.GA16384@mcvoy.com> <201805081706.w48H62gd027214@freefriends.org> <1525802016.2020176.1365125208.2706032F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1b32c1a7-69ae-6593-cd01-156f15b87edc@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Message-ID: 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.