9 May
2018
9 May
'18
1:23 a.m.
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
On 05/08/2018 12:35 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
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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.