There is a bulletin board system at Cambridge University called GROGGS[1]. Since 1995 it has used a TCP protocol called RGTP[2], which also finds limited use at a few other sites. Various pieces of software related to RGTP exist. I maintain two of these: "yarrow", a web client for RGTP, and "spurge", a fairly simple RGTP server. spurge is not the RGTP server used on GROGGS itself.
It has occasionally been suggested to me that I should package these two. Before I even consider this, I wondered what people thought about their general usefulness. Together they provide a bare-bones web bulletin board system, but there are many others. The existence of a client-independent protocol is perhaps a small bonus. But it's not as though there had been a massive take-up of RGTP outside a few Cambridge people. (For completeness, I should mention that other RGTP clients have already been debianised but are not included in Debian's catalogue, notably greed[3].) [1] http://www.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk/ [2] http://www.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk/protocol.txt [3] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/GREED.html Thomas -- Thomas Thurman, poet and programmer - thomas at thurman.org.uk My poems, mostly formalist, one each day: http://thomasthurman.org/poem-a-day/ What do you do when a dragon steals your library books? http://borrowable.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110223202720.gd19...@chiark.greenend.org.uk