Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by hackuser on Sunday February 01, 2015 @11:39AM (#8980550)

> Especially with the huge Hamster community (http://www.tglsoft.de/freeware_hamster.html), who are archiving almost fanatically, you should be able to get virtually everything you'd want just by asking nicely.

What is the Hamster community? It sounds interesting. The link points to some software that could be used to help archive, but doesn't say much more (at least browsing around the Google translation of it).

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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by Tomte on Sunday February 01, 2015 @01:01PM (#8980908)

Hamster is a local news and mail server for Win32.

It's comparable to sn on Linux: it acts as a reader, not as a "real news server" (IHAVE/SENDME).

So people could use it with their regular Usenet account on a dialup PC.

And since it's scriptable (alas, in some own script language), people extended it in lots of ways.

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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by hackuser on Sunday February 01, 2015 @02:09PM (#8981200)

Thanks. How does "archiving almost fanatically" fit in with that? Or is this archiving culture just coincidental?

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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by Tomte on Sunday February 01, 2015 @02:50PM (#8981366)

Coincidental. I haven't kept my archives, even though at one point I had sucked postings for several nights (all of de.*, and the Big8, I think).

But others kept their "purple data" religiously.

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