Post by @stefano@bsd.cafe
Suddenly a combo came to my mind: inn+suck and slrn
If you know what I’m talking about, boost this post. You probably have a few gray hairs too.
slrn sounds familiar. Back in the late 90s I used usenet. The first time was when I needed info to get my XFree86 working on my first Linux install. I used slrn because console was all I had. I don't remember how I learned to use it and don't know how now. I don't recall the rest of what you have there. I do have the gray hairs.
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@stefano Not really any gray hairs yet, but I can confirm I know quite well what it refers to: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-nntp/suck
@stefano Great combo, I miss the Usenet of yore. I was always more of a tin user than an slrn user though...
FWIW, one of my favourite online moments was when @SteveBellovin replied to a post of mine on one of the NetBSD mailing lists.
@stefano@bsd.cafe I once corrected a bug in B-News.
But at the ISP feed level Diablo was what made Usenet work on affordable hardware. INN was heavily dependent on the underlying filesystem.
But at the ISP feed level Diablo was what made Usenet work on affordable hardware. INN was heavily dependent on the underlying filesystem.