Just call me Mr. NNTP

Just call me Mr. NNTP #nntp #usenet #lantern #illuminant #activitypub

🕤︎ - 2024-04-15

Today I counted the number of NNTP-servers I have implemented for different purposes over the years.

I wonder if I qualify for Guinness book of records - I have implemented 5 different NNTP-servers:

d-a-d.com discussion forum (Perl)
Feedbase - RSS/Atom reader (Perl)
Lantern - blog engine (Haskell)
olduse.net - nntp time travel (Haskell)
Illuminant - ActivityPub server (Haskell)

Some years before implementing Illuminant I also sketched up an NNTP-based microblogging system, which hasn't been implemented (yet?)

🕤︎ - 2024-04-15 - 1 comment

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You should certainly get some prize. Can I add to your collection https://git.cepl.eu/cgit/python/pyg/ AFAIK the only working #email to #NNTP bidirectional gateway?

- https://floss.social/users/mcepl 🕐︎ - 2024-04-17

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