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| author | t <t@tjp.lol> | 2026-07-12 20:00:15 -0600 |
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| committer | t <t@tjp.lol> | 2026-07-12 20:03:27 -0600 |
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diff --git a/weblog/nntp-a-great-protocol-for-bridging.md b/weblog/nntp-a-great-protocol-for-bridging.md index 769d5b9..91d451f 100644 --- a/weblog/nntp-a-great-protocol-for-bridging.md +++ b/weblog/nntp-a-great-protocol-for-bridging.md @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ post_date: 2023-05-17 --- +> Note: This was ported from my old gemini capsule, still served on gemini at `gemini.ctrl-c.club/~tjp` + # NNTP - a great protocol for bridging? -This gemlog is hosted on ctrl-c.club, a "place for the curious to poke around and play." It's a multi-user unix box as a social network. We have public hosting for the web and gemini, email accounts, IRC rooms, command-line games, and a custom bulletin-board software built by a member called iris. +This gemlog is hosted on `ctrl-c.club`, a "place for the curious to poke around and play." It's a multi-user unix box as a social network. We have public hosting for the web and gemini, email accounts, IRC rooms, command-line games, and a custom bulletin-board software built by a member called iris. The original iris client is a pretty bare-bones TUI, pretty much just ruby with readline and some terminal colors. As I started enjoying using it, I was also getting back into usenet newsgroups - which are still around if not exactly thriving. I realized that these systems were functionally really similar, but built on extremely different building blocks. But I wanted access to the relatively mature TUI clients available for newsgroups for browsing iris threads. @@ -28,5 +30,3 @@ Some sort of micro-blogging format could be a great fit as well, and twtxt is ni I'm increasingly thinking of the newsgroups NNTP protocol as a medium for following conversations and excited about the possibilities of a sort of bitlbee-for-newsgroups. ~tjp - -> Note: This was ported from my old gemini capsule, still served on gemini at `gemini.ctrl-c.club/~tjp` |