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Jason Evans jsevans at mailfence.com
Wed Apr 28 12:04:02 BST 2021
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How much disk space does Usenet use these days?
My server only hosts text-only newsgroups and I see 1-3GB of new articles per month. When you consider that's just plain text, there's still a lot of life in Usenet. People also wonder if it's all spam. The good news is that while spam is still with us, it has diminished considerably in the past years because spammers make no money from it and because a lot of the spam bots have been taken offline. There are still a number of newsgroups with lively active conversations every day.
bbs (not just a dos emulated one). My gemini capsule is at gemini://gemini.theuse.net.
If you're looking for prior art to research before starting on your BBS software, I
can recommend one or two things. I was thinking about using tor+ssh to log into a container that hosts the BBS and the framework is a python based tui. If you break out of the tui, your session ends. If you do anything unexpected, the session ends. This keeps me safe from having my system hacked though it would still be prone to DDOS attacks as any other service. I would like to host an online ebook reader with a large selection of books, some text/curses games like chess, checkers, snakes, whatever, and maybe a message board if I can find something like that already put together.
It doesn't have a ton of new content yet, but I'm slowly working on it. It's mostly
archives of my wordpress blog for now.
I'm looking at adding a Gemini generation step to my blog deployments (right now, using
Pelican and a couple of plugins to build the HTML).
I found a wordpress plugin that exported everything to markdown and then a markdown to gmi converter. The output is ugly to say the least, but it's legible for the most part.
The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
Best Regards,Jason Evans