[rescue] Old school usenet

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:14:02PM +0200, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>Is C news still around? We could all compile it on our systems, set up
>SSL'ed UUCP links, and run our own USENET. :-)

I just checked, UBUNTU has INN pre-compiled. Although from what I remember
from the early 1990's INN was fairly complex.

Actually so was C-News. I wrote my own news system for Coherent,
compelete with a curses based full screen reader.

Geoff.

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