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Grex > Agora > #21: What happened to Grex's Gopher server? | |
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cross
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response 44 of 79:
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May 31 13:57 UTC 2017 |
Actually, I'm thinking more like markdown documents, where the various
formatting metacharacters get translated into bolding or highlighting,
and hyperlinks work. That's it. Think Jekyll but without the jekyll part.
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tod
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response 45 of 79:
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May 31 21:22 UTC 2017 |
I'm changing my font to amber with black background and modem sound
effects
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papa
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response 46 of 79:
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Jun 1 01:20 UTC 2017 |
A good choice, though I've always been partial to phosphor green.
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walkman
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response 47 of 79:
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Jun 4 02:03 UTC 2017 |
#18 that's really cool!
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tonster
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response 48 of 79:
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Jun 5 02:00 UTC 2017 |
I think the question on everyone's mind is "Does the <blink> tag work
again?"
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cross
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response 49 of 79:
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Jun 5 02:26 UTC 2017 |
One can only hope not.
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papa
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response 50 of 79:
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Jun 5 22:45 UTC 2017 |
It's between you and your browser.
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nydel
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response 51 of 79:
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Jun 6 13:39 UTC 2017 |
thanks @cross for humoring us, we'll impress you yet! also thanks papa,
jandal, others for the tutorials. i've only ever really used gopher for easy
phlogging, it's really cool to see what's possible. and - what with us having
done so many things to the web etc - i'm sure we'll come up with some
interesting as-yet-undone or at least -uncommon things that are possible with
gopher! so far ~nydel/public_gopher just contains an empty phlog (entitled
"let's all flog thing!" in esperanto - as the log will be - about to figure
out whether i can use my esperanto keyboard or if i will need to use the
still-fine x-system. really excited about this (and about us just doing new
stuff on the system in general)
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papa
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response 52 of 79:
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Jun 10 16:18 UTC 2017 |
Check out the latest developments in Grex Gopherspace:
~papa/public_gopher/pgphlog/20170611-the_daily_batch.txt
Check it out!
Gophermeisters, update your gopherholes ever day!
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nydel
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response 53 of 79:
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Jun 23 06:52 UTC 2017 |
my apologies to misfile this, but i cannot seem to figure out how to create
an original topic in agora!
i use commonlisp (sbcl) a lot and want to do some small scripting things in
the language here locally. emacs and sbcl are already installed, would it be
much trouble to install slime (superior lisp mode for emacs) here systemwide?
again apologies to put this in wrong thread (although some of the things i
plan to try with commonlisp here involve gopher!) & i will follow any advice
on agorabbs protocol given. thanking you kindly!
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papa
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response 54 of 79:
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Jun 23 11:37 UTC 2017 |
nydel, the bbs command to start a new item is 'enter'.
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cross
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response 55 of 79:
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Jun 23 14:18 UTC 2017 |
resp:53 in this day and age, there's not much point to installing emacs
packages globally. Just use package.el and melpa/elpa/whatever the kids
are using these days and install SLIME that way. You'll probably also
want paredit while you're at it...
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tod
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response 56 of 79:
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Jun 24 07:34 UTC 2017 |
e for short
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papa
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response 57 of 79:
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Aug 10 15:08 UTC 2017 |
For those of you who do not follow the Gopher mailing list (joining which is
currently problematic), a discussion has started on the list's future,
including choosing a new moderator, a new host for the list, or changing the
list to a different medium like Usenet group, IRC, ...
If you are concerned, it might be worth your while to read up on the
discussion in the ML archive, then e-mail one of the participants if you want
to make a comment.
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tod
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response 58 of 79:
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Aug 12 11:38 UTC 2017 |
Is Usenet still around?
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kentn
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response 59 of 79:
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Aug 12 20:59 UTC 2017 |
It is.
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papa
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response 60 of 79:
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Aug 13 00:42 UTC 2017 |
resp:57
The Gopher Project mailing list information page is here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project
... and the list archive is supposed to be here:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general
... but getting to the archived messages seems to be problematic, too. :(
Is anyone not already on the list interested in the referenced discussion on
the list's future? I could cut-and-paste and post a log of the discussion so
far.
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tod
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response 61 of 79:
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Aug 13 05:06 UTC 2017 |
Sure, I'd enjoy a read
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papa
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response 62 of 79:
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Aug 13 08:34 UTC 2017 |
resp:61
OK --> gopher://grex.org/1/~papa/gopherml
Diverging into three threads, this discussion has generated more ML traffic
in three days than the ML has seen on all subjects in a year.
I have just dumped the raw e-mail files so you will have to page through
headers, quoted text, and sometimes HTML, but the whole story is in there if
you're interested.
If you want to add to the discussion, I suggest you send e-mail directly
to one of the members already participating and ask them to post to the
list on your behalf. (Unfortunately, though I am registered on the list
with two e-mail addresses, I cannot post to the list from either of
them.)
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papa
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response 63 of 79:
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Aug 13 14:18 UTC 2017 |
resp:60
The mailing list archive is available from gmain.org after all, but only in
the form of a Usenet news group:
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.gopher.general
You can access it with your favorite news reader or some web browsers like
lynx or elinks.
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papa
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response 64 of 79:
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Aug 13 16:00 UTC 2017 |
resp:62
Regarding posting to the Gopher Project mailing list, I have heard it is
possible via news.gmane.org using a news reader client.
Also, I can post on your behalf if you send me e-mail. I thought I had
lost permission to post, but found a way I can still do it.
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papa
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response 65 of 79:
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Aug 25 03:42 UTC 2017 |
For those of you interested in my antichronological date codes, I have written
scripts for converting dates to antichron codes and vice versa, dt2ach and
ach2dt. There are still some needed tweaks and maybe some bugs, but for anyone
who wants an early peak, they're available in ~papa/share/bin .
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tfurrows
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response 66 of 79:
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Aug 25 23:29 UTC 2017 |
A few users here are active in the gopher space on grex, thanks for keeping
it running cross.
quick question: in our html folders we're not supposed to upload images, as
far as I understand. What about our gopher folders? I put a few images in mine
of an electronics project. Is it a common-sense-don't-overdo-it approach, or
are images simply not allowed period? Thanks.
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papa
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response 67 of 79:
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Aug 26 00:06 UTC 2017 |
It's cross's call, but that's probably a rule made long ago to deal with abuse
of a very different Grex and a very different Internet from what we have now.
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cross
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response 68 of 79:
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Aug 26 13:47 UTC 2017 |
Try either and see whether it works. :-)
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