From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 20:54:52 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1805082054040.3372@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5FC9A20A-22A3-4EAF-8227-49D5839A9F76@orthanc.ca>
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
>> On May 8, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
>>
>> I think there are a number of people / hobbyists that run (text only) news servers (like myself) doing exactly that.
>
> I don't understand what a "text only" news server is. A "news" server schleps "news" around via NNTP. The protocol is "text," as is SMTP for mail. Is there a "binary" variation?
There's a bunch of groups, like alt.binaries.*, that carry large volumes
of pirated material (software, videos, DVDISOs, etc.). A text-only server
excludes those groups.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 0:54 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
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 [this message]
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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