• Is this thing still on?

    From deepend@deepend@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Sat Sep 17 22:39:58 2022
    Seems really quiet on netnews lately.. Hope it isn't broken?

    Hows everyone doing?!

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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Sun Sep 18 05:11:11 2022
    deepend <deepend@tilde.club> writes:

    Seems really quiet on netnews lately.. Hope it isn't broken?

    Hows everyone doing?!


    Having a déjà vu. ;-)
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  • From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Sun Sep 18 15:29:02 2022
    On Sat, 17 Sep 2022, deepend wrote:

    Seems really quiet on netnews lately.. Hope it isn't broken?

    Well, I cross-checked this thread (the tilde.meta's one) from Tilde.club against both Cosmic.voyage and Tilde.team; the propagation is still okay.

    Cross-checking it reminds me why I liked Netnews (and NNTP) so much;
    I simply Netcat'd in on port 119 of each host, type "article ",
    paste the `Message-ID` value, press Enter, and voila!
    the post is now present before me, readable and verifiable to naked eye.

    Hows everyone doing?!

    Well I faded into background a bit as some IRL stuff required my attention;
    but I popped back in few days ago to send an email over to ~ben
    at Tilde.team about a preparation to open `tilde.bsd` newsgroup
    on Tilde.team's Netnews server in a planned manner, to not repeat
    what we went through at Tilde.club.

    I still hadn't gotten a reply, and it's not there yet...

    $ nc tilde.team 119
    200 tilde.team InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.3 ready (no posting)
    GROUP tilde.bsd
    411 No such group tilde.bsd
    QUIT
    205 Bye!
    $

    I check this daily, so until the server's answer become positive,
    this would take a backburner for now; but I have drafted a complete
    instruction ready to be sent to ~tomasino as soon as I have verified
    that it become on.

    (Note that even when it actually become on, newsreaders wouldn't
    see it in the newsgroups list on that server yet; the phase of it being
    a "secret non-postable newsgroup" is a part of new rejection-free
    newsgroup addition procedure I'm working on)

    Regards,
    ~xwindows
    (Tilde.club's Unofficial Netnews Wrangler)
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Sun Sep 18 09:04:03 2022
    xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> writes:

    $ nc tilde.team 119

    I love poking around the protocols with rlwrap-superpower:

    $ rlwrap nc tilde.team 119

    Has BSD something like that too?
    EditLineWrap or such?
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