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  • Retro File Descriptor Formats

    From NuSkooler@FREEWAY to All on Wed Dec 9 21:43:15 2020
    Finished my blog on (mostly retro) file descriptor formats used throught the BBS era till now. Thanks to everyone that helped me out with bits of history!

    https://l33t.codes/retro-standards-part-1-file-descriptors/

    If you run into things I have wrong/missing, please call them out!


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  • From Ogg@FREEWAY to NuSkooler on Thu Dec 10 19:15:00 2020
    Hello 774/20>!

    ** On Wednesday 09.12.20 - 23:43, 774/20 wrote to All:

    Finished my blog on (mostly retro) file descriptor formats used throught the BBS era till now. Thanks to everyone that helped me out with bits of
    history!

    https://l33t.codes/retro-standards-part-1-file-descriptors/

    If you run into things I have wrong/missing, please call them out!


    Very nice. It was like a little work of art.

    BTW.. I haven't been able to get a response from pgp.mit.edu
    for at least a year. Is it down?



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  • From NuSkooler@FREEWAY to Ogg on Thu Dec 10 19:44:54 2020
    Twas Thursday, December 10th when Ogg said...
    Very nice. It was like a little work of art.

    Ty!

    Ogg around Thursday, December 10th...
    BTW.. I haven't been able to get a response from pgp.mit.edu for at least a year. Is it down?

    I'm able to load it up just fine -- DNS?


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  • From Ogg@FREEWAY to NuSkooler on Thu Dec 10 22:25:00 2020
    Hello 774/20>!

    ** On Thursday 10.12.20 - 21:44, 774/20 wrote to Ogg:

    BTW.. I haven't been able to get a response from
    pgp.mit.edu for at least a year. Is it down?

    I'm able to load it up just fine -- DNS?

    I can reach the main page, but searches and queries get no
    response, except for this after a few minutes of waiting:

    "Proxy Error

    The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
    The proxy server could not handle the request GET /pks/lookup.

    Reason: Error reading from remote server"



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  • From NuSkooler@FREEWAY to Ogg on Fri Dec 11 10:48:27 2020
    On Friday, December 11th Ogg said...
    I can reach the main page, but searches and queries get no response, except for this after a few minutes of waiting:
    "Proxy Error

    Ah yep, you're right.

    I've been generally using keybase.io anyway, so I guess why I didn't really notice.


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  • From Ogg@FREEWAY to NuSkooler on Fri Dec 11 20:54:00 2020
    Hello 774/20>!

    ** On Friday 11.12.20 - 12:48, 774/20 wrote to Ogg:


    On Friday, December 11th Ogg said...
    I can reach the main page, but searches and queries get no response, Og>> except for this after a few minutes of waiting:
    "Proxy Error

    Ah yep, you're right.

    I just thought that I would mention it 'cuz your About page
    refers to the gpg.mit.edu page.


    I've been generally using keybase.io anyway, so I guess why
    I didn't really notice.

    Never heard of keybase.io before. Looks interesting.

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  • From NuSkooler@FREEWAY to Ogg on Fri Dec 11 19:09:22 2020
    Twas Friday, December 11th when Ogg said...
    I just thought that I would mention it 'cuz your About page refers to the gpg.mit.edu page.

    Thanks for pointing that out. I should just point it to Keybase.io also. I've been neglecting the blog. I need to get it converted over to a static generator
    I think. I've been using Ghost which I really like, but I don't feel like going through the update steps since I'm so many versions back.



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  • From Anachronist@FREEWAY to Nuskooler on Sun Dec 13 23:02:52 2020
    On Wed 9-Dec-2020 9:43p, Nuskooler@80:774/20.0 wrote:
    Finished my blog on (mostly retro) file descriptor formats used throught
    the
    BBS era till now. Thanks to everyone that helped me out with bits of history!

    This was a great read! I was pleased to see the cbAmigaq1 acknowledged, and great catch with the collies. A lot of people don't know about diz extraction from text files. Really great work man.

    cb»» cdaNACHRONiST c1| caabsinthebbs.net:1940q1

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