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[04/07/2022 @22:15]: USENET Notes

Around 20 years ago I was early enough in my career that I still harbored the illusion that there was any way to hold back the insanity of people. My frustrations were mounting and I found solace in reading things from similarly beset individuals. Simon Travaglia's BOFH[1] was an early companion. There were also forums, mailing lists and USENET news groups where one could express themselves. Over the years I stopped using most of these things, largely because I entered a form of recovery from the systems administration trade and went into a somewhat more well thanked field... sales. Late last year though I went and started poking around USENET again. It is much less active than before however it is still there (it predates the Internet, after all) and there are still interesting topics being discussed regularly. It got me thinking a bit about my website[2] and I was about to start working on a NNTP frontend when I discovered that the kind soul who wrote gmane[3] also wrote a RSS to news gateway, gwene[4]. I promptly submitted my RSS feed and registered the newsgroup gwene.com.going-flying.blog[5]. It does a pretty good job, though since my RSS feed contains HTML you will want a news reader that understands HTML. That being said I render a pretty minimal markup for RSS articles and I include the full article text so it should be a pretty good experience to read for gemini enthusiasts. If you fancy looking at a more-often updated collection of mostly technical things I encourage you to take a peek. For the generally interested there is also a USENET group for gemini as well, it's lightly active but seems mostly friendly. You can find at comp.infosystems.gemini[6].

[1] http://bofharchive.com

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/

[3] https://gmane.io/

[4] http://gwene.org/

[5] nntp://news.gwene.org/gwene.com.going-flying.blog/

[6] nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.infosystems.gemini/

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