Old newsreader source code

Grant Taylor cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Thu May 10 10:57:38 CDT 2018


On 05/10/2018 07:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in 
> 1988 again. :)  The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88.  The 
> messages that appear on the server are exactly 30 years behind the 
> current date.  It's pretty cool.  Last year was the Great Renaming. :)

Part of me wants to find out what corpus of articles they are using and 
try to get a copy of it.

I'd like to back fill my private news server with old articles.  (I'd 
likely use the local distribution so that my server didn't try to feed 
them to any peers.)



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Grant. . . .
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