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commit 826b176d1f6f89a34668cfc2cfd490193c59da12
parent 9921b87ef67044b9cdb728de93cebc7f63718ca0
Author: Jay Scott <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 22:16:55 +0100
Adding new phlog, 021.txt!
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M index.gph | 6 ++++--
M meta/changelog.txt | 10 +++++++++-
A phlog/021.txt | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
3 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/index.gph b/index.gph
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@
J A Y . S C O T
+ echo | nc jay.scot 79
+
+
PHLOG
+[0|2023-07-06 ... A ready to read archive of old gopher Usenet groups|phlog/02…
[0|2023-07-03 ... Getting to grips with slrn|phlog/020.txt|server|port]
[0|2023-06-19 ... My Beelink U59 running OpenBSD kicked the bucket!|phlog/019.…
[0|2023-04-30 ... The lack of time for geeky tasks!|phlog/018.txt|server|port]
@@ -39,5 +43,3 @@ OTHER
[0|changelog ... latest updates|meta/changelog.txt|server|port]
[0|system ... my system|meta/system.txt|server|port]
[0|email|meta/email.txt|server|port]
-
-finger me ... echo | nc jay.scot 79
diff --git a/meta/changelog.txt b/meta/changelog.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
+--[ 6th July 2023
+ Adding another special finger user.
+ Addng gopher usenet archive.
+
+
--[ 29th June 2023
Moved to Debain 12 - Bookworm!
+
--[ 16th Feb 2023
Added my system details
---[ 4rd Feb 2023
+
+--[ 4th Feb 2023
Adding finger daemon
+
--[ 30th Jan 2023
Added a changelog!
diff --git a/phlog/021.txt b/phlog/021.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+[jay.scot]
+[021]
+
+
+--[ A ready to read archive of old gopher Usenet groups
+
+
+So, I recently got back into Usenet and thought it would be cool to
+browse through old historical posts, especially the ones in the old
+gopher groups. You can actually find a bunch of collections dating as
+far back as 1981 on archive.org. They've got the Giganews Usenet
+Collection, Usenet Historical Collection, and Henry Spencer's UTZOO
+NetNews Archive. Although the UTZO Wiseman Archive is no longer
+available on archive.org:
+
+
+ In 2020 after sustained legal demands requesting a set of
+ messages within the Usenet Archive be redacted, and to avoid
+ further costs and accusations of manipulation should those
+ demands be met, the archive has been removed from this URL and
+ is not currently accessible to the public.
+
+ Included in this item is a file listing and the md5 sums of the
+ removed files, for the use of others in verifying they have
+ original materials.
+
+
+You can still find a copy from a few well-crafted searches.
+
+
+Anyway, when I downloaded these archives, I realized that most of them
+were in mbox format, which kinda sucked for reading. So, I ended up
+splitting them into spool files, which made it much easier to read using
+slrn. Some of the archives seemed to be ripped from Google Groups at
+some point, so I took out all those additional X-Google-* headers from the
+posts.
+
+
+The end result is an archive that's around 20MB compressed and 105MB
+uncompressed. It covers alt.gopher and comp.infosystems.gopher from 1992
+to 2013, with approximately 22,000 posts. It's all set up and ready for
+anyone with slrn installed to dive into. I even included a slrn
+configuration file with some decent default settings.
+
+
+To check out the archive, just follow these steps:
+
+
+ curl -O gopher://jay.scot/9/files/usenet/gopher-usenet-archive-1992.tar.gz
+ tar -zxvf gopher-usenet-archive-1992.tar.gz
+ cd gopher-usenet-archive
+ slrn -f newsrc -i slrnc
+
+
+There are a few posts from 2000 that look kinda weird and might show up
+as if they're from 1970. And with that, we reach the end of this phlog!
+
+
+ Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
+ From: [email protected] (Edward Vielmetti)
+ Subject: Welcome to comp.infosystems.gopher!
+ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 05:18:35 GMT
+
+ Hello, and welcome to comp.infosystems.gopher. The newgroup
+ message went out yesterday, and we're going to migrate traffic
+ over from the old alt.gopher group into the brand new "official"
+ group.
+
+
+.EOF
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