Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?

Re:Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents? by btrettel on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:18AM (#31682314)

And it seems that a lot of uuencoded content was removed at some point. You can see the text of the message, but the uuencoded part is mostly cut out. Here's an example: https://groups.google.com/g/misc.int-property/c/f2-dV5wVP9U/...

If anyone here knows how to get the uuencoded part of that message, I'd be interested.

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Re:Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents? by that_courtney on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:50AM (#31682721)

You can't. It was never there.

I wrote the first custom NNTP client for Deja. (This was a high-performance replacement for the community, open source client.) All it did was receive and dump articles in a format for the indexer. It did some light processing, including stripping uuencode content. So uuencode never even made it into the archive.

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Re:Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents? by btrettel on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:40PM (#31683421)

Thanks for the information. I figured someone here might know something.

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