• MultiMail HowTo

    From calcmandan@77:1/110 to All on Wed Apr 22 10:42:00 2020
    When I'm reading through unread messages, none of the messages originating from me are listed. I've gone through the config file with nothing obvious. Can someone shed some light on this?

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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to calcmandan on Thu Apr 23 12:11:00 2020
    On 04-22-20 10:42, calcmandan wrote to All <=-

    When I'm reading through unread messages, none of the messages
    originating from me are listed. I've gone through the config file with nothing obvious. Can someone shed some light on this?

    ... Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world
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    Some BBSs offer an option whether to send your own messages to yourself in QWK/Bluewave packets. Check in the offline packet configuration on the BBS next time you login as a user.


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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Vk3jed on Wed Apr 22 21:34:00 2020
    Vk3jed wrote to calcmandan <=-

    Some BBSs offer an option whether to send your own messages to yourself
    in QWK/Bluewave packets. Check in the offline packet configuration on
    the BBS next time you login as a user.

    Okay I'll have a looksee.

    ... Silence cannot be misquoted.

    I love this quote. I'm going to show it to all the women in my life.

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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to calcmandan on Fri Apr 24 11:15:00 2020
    On 04-22-20 21:34, calcmandan wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Vk3jed wrote to calcmandan <=-

    Some BBSs offer an option whether to send your own messages to yourself
    in QWK/Bluewave packets. Check in the offline packet configuration on
    the BBS next time you login as a user.

    Okay I'll have a looksee.

    How did you go?

    ... Silence cannot be misquoted.

    I love this quote. I'm going to show it to all the women in my life.

    LOL, have fun. ;)


    ... I'm SO nice, that when I step in it I don't say it.
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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Vk3jed on Fri Apr 24 01:20:00 2020
    Vk3jed wrote to calcmandan <=-

    Some BBSs offer an option whether to send your own messages to yourself
    in QWK/Bluewave packets. Check in the offline packet configuration on
    the BBS next time you login as a user.

    Okay I'll have a looksee.

    How did you go?

    Yeah the setting was there and it worked. I now see my posts.

    ... Silence cannot be misquoted.

    I love this quote. I'm going to show it to all the women in my life.

    LOL, have fun. ;)

    Oh I did and the expected result came true. No one seems to agree.


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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to calcmandan on Sat Apr 25 08:16:00 2020
    On 04-24-20 01:20, calcmandan wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    How did you go?

    Yeah the setting was there and it worked. I now see my posts.

    Cool. :)

    ... Silence cannot be misquoted.

    I love this quote. I'm going to show it to all the women in my life.

    LOL, have fun. ;)

    Oh I did and the expected result came true. No one seems to agree.

    Haha, but you survived? :D

    ... Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world

    Must do that at some stage. I used to be a heavy Gopher user when I first started on the net, back in 1994. :)


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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Vk3jed on Sat Apr 25 15:36:00 2020
    Vk3jed wrote to calcmandan <=-

    Haha, but you survived? :D

    I learned how to debate women. <partially>

    ... Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world

    Must do that at some stage. I used to be a heavy Gopher user when I
    first started on the net, back in 1994. :)

    I never knew what gopher was. I only saw references to it on browser settings. I always just surfed the web without knowledge of protocols. I may have used it without knowing it. But anyway, I read about gopher about three years ago and soon discovered how easy it is to host and post content.

    I've got a pretty large wishlist of things I want to do.

    Until a fwe months ago, someone had a massive news aggregator on a gopher page that pulled RSS feeds from at least a hundred news sources and updated every thirty minutes. The result was a fast, ad-free, cookie/tracker/analytics free reading experience. He took it down without warning and made the source code available.

    At some point I'm going to erect my own because I miss that source of information.



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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to calcmandan on Sun Apr 26 16:56:00 2020
    On 04-25-20 15:36, calcmandan wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I never knew what gopher was. I only saw references to it on browser settings. I always just surfed the web without knowledge of protocols.
    I may have used it without knowing it. But anyway, I read about gopher about three years ago and soon discovered how easy it is to host and
    post content.

    I was using Gopher before I used the web, it was the main way to access information in the old days, pre-WWW. In 1994, the WWW was still in its early days and was just about to take off. One used a dedicated gopher client back then.

    I've got a pretty large wishlist of things I want to do.

    Cool, nice.

    Until a fwe months ago, someone had a massive news aggregator on a
    gopher page that pulled RSS feeds from at least a hundred news sources
    and updated every thirty minutes. The result was a fast, ad-free, cookie/tracker/analytics free reading experience. He took it down
    without warning and made the source code available.

    Now that's definitely worth exploring, at least until the content creators wake up to what's going on and try to shore up their ad revenue. :D

    At some point I'm going to erect my own because I miss that source of information.

    That I can understand. I should look at setting up a gopher server sometime.
    )


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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Vk3jed on Sun Apr 26 03:14:00 2020
    Vk3jed wrote to calcmandan <=-

    I was using Gopher before I used the web, it was the main way to access information in the old days, pre-WWW. In 1994, the WWW was still in
    its early days and was just about to take off. One used a dedicated gopher client back then.



    Now that's definitely worth exploring, at least until the content
    creators wake up to what's going on and try to shore up their ad
    revenue. :D

    It would be unluikely they'd find out. RSS is a common method of distributing their content and almost no one uses gopher anymore. Modern browsers dropped support for it years ago and it requires specially written browsers to access it.

    That I can understand. I should look at setting up a gopher server sometime. )

    It's pretty straight forward. Once you read the guide on how to markup the files off your gophermap, it's cake. Then you can get your server listed and added to the VeronicaII search engine.

    A few other sites that are gopherized:

    Wikipedia: gopher://gopherpedia.com
    Rddit: gopher://gopherddit.com

    Wikipedia is especially great you don't get that massive money donation nag banner.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Vk3jed on Sun Apr 26 15:09:34 2020
    I was using Gopher before I used the web, it was the main way to access information in the old days, pre-WWW. In 1994, the WWW was still in its early days and was just about to take off. One used a dedicated gopher client back then.

    We still maintain a gopher server here for SciNet at uucp.scinet-ftn.org

    Currently it houses all of the stuff in the SciNet info pack but I have been toying with the idea of granting read only access (obviously) to the message bases so people can read or search for things in the SciNet echos.

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  • From calcmandan@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Sun Apr 26 23:21:00 2020
    Netsurge wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I was using Gopher before I used the web, it was the main way to access information in the old days, pre-WWW. In 1994, the WWW was still in its early days and was just about to take off. One used a dedicated gopher client back then.

    We still maintain a gopher server here for SciNet at
    uucp.scinet-ftn.org

    Currently it houses all of the stuff in the SciNet info pack but I have been toying with the idea of granting read only access (obviously) to
    the message bases so people can read or search for things in the SciNet echos.

    Yes, yes, yes, this please. Adding content on the gophersphere will make it better.


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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to calcmandan on Mon Apr 27 20:33:00 2020
    On 04-26-20 03:14, calcmandan wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Now that's definitely worth exploring, at least until the content
    creators wake up to what's going on and try to shore up their ad
    revenue. :D

    It would be unluikely they'd find out. RSS is a common method of distributing their content and almost no one uses gopher anymore.
    Modern browsers dropped support for it years ago and it requires
    specially written browsers to access it.

    That and it's probably going to fly under the radar anyway. :)

    That I can understand. I should look at setting up a gopher server sometime. )

    It's pretty straight forward. Once you read the guide on how to markup
    the files off your gophermap, it's cake. Then you can get your server listed and added to the VeronicaII search engine.

    Cool. :)

    A few other sites that are gopherized:

    Wikipedia: gopher://gopherpedia.com
    Rddit: gopher://gopherddit.com

    I'll have to check them out. :)

    Wikipedia is especially great you don't get that massive money donation nag banner.

    Good point! :)


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  • From Vk3jed@77:3/106 to Netsurge on Mon Apr 27 20:34:00 2020
    On 04-26-20 15:09, Netsurge wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    We still maintain a gopher server here for SciNet at
    uucp.scinet-ftn.org

    Currently it houses all of the stuff in the SciNet info pack but I have been toying with the idea of granting read only access (obviously) to
    the message bases so people can read or search for things in the SciNet echos.

    More hophers than a plagued golf course. ;)


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