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1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats

My old #introduction got lost somewhere

German, he/him, 40s, living in Poland (#lodz). I work in IT and do some geeky computer stuff on the side (#usenet, #uucp, #irc)

My main hobby are #ttrpgs (#osr #dnd, #traveller, #shadowrun) and similar (#minipainting, #boardgames) but I also do writing and reading (#fantasy, #sf) and #cooking

I will be complaining about #kids, #cats, lack of #coffee, and the general state of the world

I do get weirdly obsessed with topics sometimes. But don't we all?

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John Goerzen

@kyonshi Welcome! I was sort of half-consciously scrolling along, and then all of a sudden my brain went, "Wait, what? Did I see in that list? Why yes I did!" Hello, fello human that knows what UUCP and Usenet are! I have been running UUCP (and its successor ) off and on for 30 years. I have a page at complete.org/uucp/ and there's complete.org/nncp/ about NNCP. Curious what you are doing with UUCP and who you connect to. Also I offer Usenet feeds via NNCP.

www.complete.org · UUCPUUCP is a system for exchanging data and requesting remote execution. It dates back to 1979, and was primarily used over Modems using telephone landlines for most of its days of popularity. It is an Asynchronous Communication system, which transmits data from one machine to the next on the way to its destination. Each intermediate node may store the data before passing it on to the next. Before dedicated Internet lines were widely available, UUCP was used to send Usenet and Email messages.
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1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats

@jgoerzen we already were talking, this is just a new introduction because I unpinned my old one and found it too bothersome to find a new one...
:)

we have a small uucp network for mail, news, and files, and I am still trying to get nncp to work but haven't quite figured out how to get it working with my uucp setup for now

John Goerzen

@kyonshi Ahh, my apologies, I am notoriously bad with remembering names. Well, welcome again and I am still glad to visit with you 🙂

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