From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 08:46:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e838615c-9bcc-07c5-8a62-3f756e843005@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180510050341.64DDC156E510@mail.bitblocks.com>
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Stargate did not use anything called "bags". I just checked the source
code to confirm.
It also didn't use D news. Stargate required B news.
Remember - Stargate was in the 1987 time frame. Googling for Dnews
turns up a CNet page saying it was released in 2004.
Mary Ann
On 05/09/2018 10:03 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Wed, 09 May 2018 22:53:01 -0600 Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
>> On 05/09/2018 09:51 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>>> What are they to begin with? Having run some "major" UUCP hubs in the
>>> day, I have no clue what a UUCP "bag" is ...
>> I see them in the context of Usenet via UUCP, so rnews.
>>
>> The best that I can tell is that they are simply the messages that need
>> to be sent written into a single file that is then transferred via some
>> mechanism, ftp being a common one.
>>
>> It looks like it might be the output of nntpsend or send-nntp. Or
>> perhaps output of downstream / related UUCP commands.
>>
>> I often see it mentioned in close proximity of DNews.
> From dnews manual
>
> Sucking in UUCP or Satellite articles
>
> DNEWS can read UUCP bag files in standard rnews format,
> these are often used by satellite systems, the satellite
> receiver software may write 'uucp' files to a directory on
> your system, dnews can then automatically scan and read in
> items that appear in this directory. To read these files
> just specify in dnews.conf the directory and file names that
> DNews should scan, e.g. in dnews.conf
>
> I have a vague memory of some folks (Mark Horton?) sending usenet
> data in the unused portion satellite TV signal (stargate?).
>
> Ah, this must be it!:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/19981203103811/http://www.stargate.com/history.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-10 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-10 3:49 Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 3:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-10 4:53 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 5:03 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-10 15:46 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2018-05-10 16:08 ` Chet Ramey
2018-05-10 14:25 ` Chet Ramey
2018-05-10 15:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 16:03 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-10 16:24 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 14:10 ` John P. Linderman
2018-05-10 23:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-11 0:24 ` John P. Linderman
2018-05-11 3:51 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 3:42 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 3:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-11 4:09 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 4:18 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 4:39 ` Grant Taylor
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