[Off Topic]Discussing how to have communities without going back to something http/s based

[Jonathan Lane]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:48:38PM +0000, The Doctor wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Monday, June 7th, 2021 at 15:14, easrng <easrng@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Brass Goggles appears to have Tapatalk support (http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/mobiquo/mobiquo.php) so it's possible to make a non-web viewer.
> 
> It appears to be broken, though that might be because it requires additional arguments. Tapatalk's a new one by me.
> 
> > There's also NNTP/Usenet. IIRC groups can be hosted on their own server or as part of the actual Usenet network.
> 
> Easily. The FidoNET protocol took a lot of cues from NNTP. In some locations, NNTP is used under the hood for internal comms (with webapps that
> completely hide what it really is).
> 
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NNTP is cool, especially if you use UUCP or NNNCP[1] as a transport 
mechanism for offline relaying.  I favor Eternal September[2] as the 
news provider of choice since it's text groups only - no NZB warez.

[1]: http://www.nncpgo.org/
[2]: https://www.eternal-september.org/

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