[TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 05:59:52PM -0800, Charles Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 17:56 Jan Schaumann via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Kinda feel like being an Old Fart and joining a
> > Facebook group are mutually exclusive.  Now if it was
> > a newsgroup, perhaps, or a FidoNet BBS, ...
> >
> 
> We can do 'forum' on Multics.

There's a re-implementation of 'forum' called Discuss[1] that was
implemented by the MIT Student Information Board.  It has a 'forum'
feel, and the ss (subsystem) library provides the CLI interface which
is reminiscent of Multics forum.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.31.8576&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The ss and et (error_table) libraries that were originally written for
the Discuss system are still in use today as part of Linux's ext2/3/4
userspace utilities, e2fsprogs.  (The debugfs program uses the ss
library, as does a few regression test drivers for some unit tests).
The ss library is also used for the Kerberos v5 Administration
Server.

						- Ted