10 May
2018
10 May
'18
9:46 p.m.
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(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
On 05/09/2018 09:51 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
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.… 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.