joshua stein
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@jcs@social.sdf.org
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Feb 17 2023 15:57:12
Dumb things I am having to write today in 2023:
- a Fidonet "bink" protocol parser (https://www.ritlabs.com/binkp/)
- a PKZIP in-memory extractor (https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT)
- a Fidonet packet parser (http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:fidonet_packets)
I get that BBSes are mostly dead and this technology hasn't changed much since the 80s but I wish one of these message networks would throw away all these ancient protocols and just pass around JSON messages for syndication