Re: usenet access and the future of comp.sys.apple2

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

datajerk wrote:
> 
> Given the options I prefer USENET.  It's robust, redundant, can be
> read offline, and I have been using it since the 80's.  And, I do not
> see it going away.  Google stepped up.

And more importantly, Google does not have a monopoly on old Usenet posts
(where "old" means > 10 years).

One of my upcoming plans (oh, how I have so many) is to write an NNTP server
in something like Java and then allow people to connect to news.macgui.com
and access the entire Vault Usenet Archive from a newsreader (wouldn't that
be fun?). The problem is that no current NNTP server nor newsreader can
handle the old article formats, the A-News and B-News styles, even though
the web archive can. I'd probably have to convert the old articles into the
newer, current format, since I can write the server to allow it to handle
all article formats, (as I did with the web archive) but I can't control the
newsreaders that people would use.

I could conceivably get this done in 2011, maybe over the summer.

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