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Gemini Digest, Vol 26, Issue 36

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Tue Sep 28 14:48:06 BST 2021

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charliebrownau <charliebrownau at protonmail.com> writes:

Gday
1.
I would love to see newsgroup rival
for news (textural), low bandwidth photos/pics and low bandwidth files (podcasts,recipies, wood working/3d printing plans)
2.I would like to see secure
IRCS , FTPS, newsgroupS and fingerS come back
without bloated http web, corporations, , centralised cloud servers ,
subverive elements

I'd say that none of these are really in-scope for Gemini. A lot of thethings in (2) already exist. For example, I access a couple of NNTPservers that use TLS. NNTP has its problems, and I'd love to seesomething that both modernizes and simplifies it, but that's going to beits own protocol, not something build on Gemini.

3. Also has anyone dissussed a method to transfer email in bulk at certain times using gemini like the old fido mail BBS system
for gemini situations of low bandwidth, bandwidth limits
or partial uptime periods of time or different quota/speeds on the connection if self hosting at home or grid down issues

What you want to look into for this is NNCP(http://www.nncpgo.org/). It is a successor protocol to UUCP, which wastraditionally used for those purposes. Building on top of NNCP is areally promising approach to any attempt to rethink news and mail.

4.
Also whats the best Gemini server progrma to use
without systemd, dbus, policykit, java, python, dotnet
, snap, flatpak
for a low end vps to serve gemlog, gemcast stream
and a few picutures

There are several Gemini servers in C with limited dependencies.

-- Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,jmcbray at carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies, | but stranger still is lost Carcosa.” | ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow