On Thu, 10 May 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 05/10/2018 07:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in
1988 again. :) The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88. The
messages that appear on the server are exactly 30
On 05/10/2018 07:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in
1988 again. :) The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88. The
messages that appear on the server are exactly 30 years behind the
current date. It's pretty cool. L
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in
> 1988 again. :) The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88. The
> messages that appear on the server are exactly 30 years behind the current
> date. It's p
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in
> 1988 again. :) The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88. The
> messages that appear on the server are exactly 30 years behind the current
> date. It's p
> 1989 was a bit before my time, Usenet-wise (I was still hitting the BBS scene
> at the time), but around '93-94 when I got my first Unix shell account, I
> recall using nn, but not terribly often (I mean, gopher was _right there_ for
> the taking!).
Another vote for nn (and, for that matter, Go
On Wed, 9 May 2018, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
From: Seth Morabito
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you
using?
1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I used
rn under Ultrix (on a VAX
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:52:34PM +, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 05/09/2018 02:17 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> > From: Seth Morabito
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
> >
> >> As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you
> >> using?
> On May 9, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 05/09/2018 03:23 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote:
>> It occurred to me (and before I saw Peter Corlett’s post) to go looking for
>> some of the old CD-ROMs that have been uploaded to archive.org, and I found
>> this one
On 05/09/2018 03:23 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote:
It occurred to me (and before I saw Peter Corlett’s post) to go looking
for some of the old CD-ROMs that have been uploaded to archive.org,
and I found this one:
https://archive.org/details/CDROM_March92
While browsing through the fil
Just a quick look at http://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/ found
"rn version 4.3" from 1985 in volume 1. Others may be available if
you look thru the archive.
bill
On 05/09/2018 05:23 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote:
On May 8, 2018, at 9:23, Seth Morabito wrote:
I'm experimentin
On May 8, 2018, at 9:23, Seth Morabito wrote:
> I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s,
> and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code
> for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code
> for old news
On 05/09/2018 02:17 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> From: Seth Morabito
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
>
>> As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you
>> using?
> 1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I used
> rn under Ul
From: Seth Morabito
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
> As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you
> using?
1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I used
rn under Ultrix (on a VAX 3600, the staff Ultrix system at LOTS), but soon
swit
On Wed, 9 May 2018, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote:
I recall using 'trn' as my goto reader, back in the day.
Some of us still use trn to this day
Gordon
On 05/08/2018 12:23 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
> I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s,
> and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code
> for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code
>
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:23:26AM -0700, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Does anyone have better Google-fu than I do? Or perhaps you've got earlier
> sources squirreled away?
I likely have some on one of the various Unix shovelware CDs of the early
1990s. It's probably quicker for you to
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s,
and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code
for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source
co
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
> I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s,
> and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code
> for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source
I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s, and
I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code for
Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code for
old news *readers*.
I'm looking especially for nn, which was
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