[TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?

Henry Bent henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Wed May 9 09:18:46 AEST 2018


On 8 May 2018 at 19:16, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:

>
> > On May 8, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think there are a number of people / hobbyists that run (text only)
> news servers (like myself) doing exactly that.
>
> I don't understand what a "text only" news server is.  A "news" server
> schleps "news" around via NNTP.  The protocol is "text," as is SMTP for
> mail.  Is there a "binary" variation?


I was curious about this too - do yo just detect encoded attachments and
delete them?

-Henry
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