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Jason Evans jsevans at mailfence.com
Fri Mar 26 07:30:52 GMT 2021
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Hi everyone,
I am in the process of building my first capsule, and I had a couple of ideas on what to do for content. First I converted by wordpress blog to markdown and from markdown to gmi and that went well, so I've got a few years worth of content available already. Also, I run a personal Usenet server. I thought it would be cool to share the raw Usenet articles with in my capsule.
If you don't know, Usenet is 100% plain text. Let's say you wanted to read everything that's happening in rec.radio.amateur; you would go to the rec directory, then radio, then amateur, then the articles are listed as 1,2,3,4. Like this: rec/radio/amateur/1. 1 is the first message on my server and again it is plain text. However all of the gemini readers see this as something that they can't read, but if I were to rename this file to 1.txt or 1.gmi, then it could. Realistically, I can't rename every file because that would break my usenet server. Is there a way around this that I can trick gemini readers into seeing these files as plain text and then viewing them?
Thanks!
Jason