Re: NNCPNET, the successor to UUCP networks, now available

On 2025-04-09, Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:

Sounds like NNCP would be a good protocol to run on my ad-hoc wifi
network idea. I like it. Perhaps news and email over NNCP? Sounds like
a good match.

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Yay---finally someone reacted to the this great thread. 
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Special thanks to John Goerzen for working on the system and posting the
news.  I'm very excited!  I wish I could be emailing John on NNCPNET
already.  (I'm close to.) 
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I got NNCP to work on my OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but I still need to learn
to use it properly.  I was able to transfer a file, but I couldn't find
it on my file system after the packet was transferred.  I also saw some
crashes using nncp-call on OpenBSD.  I need to stop and try again and
ask for help with the details ready.  I wanted to follow up sooner than
later to say that I was very happy to see the news.
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I'm going through some tough days.  I'll be back ASAP.

Take care of yourself!  And when you're ready, the nncp-devel list might be a
good place to ask for help with some of those things.

https://www.complete.org/nncp-concepts/ might also be helpful.

- John