Hello !! =D

[Felix Ferret]

Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry group in Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been in the fandom for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics and retro internet culture ! I like video games and all kinds of music.

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:41:28 -0800 (PST), Felix Ferret

Post by Felix Ferret
Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry group in Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been in the fandom for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics and retro internet culture ! I like video games and all kinds of music.

It's on life-support... There are a few of us who never stopped monitoring
the group, but...

Well, I show 66 messages going back to May of this year. 12 of them are
pure SPAM having nothing to do with the group, and 24 were a thread
involving "which server" one used to access the group. That leaves a mere
30 general messages over a six month period.

In the old days, 30 messages used to be a light DAY of traffic.

[Ivan Shmakov]

Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry group
in Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been in the
fandom for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics and retro
internet culture ! I like video games and all kinds of music.

It's on life-support... There are a few of us who never stopped
monitoring the group, but...

... But I don't suppose many actually went into popularizing it
(or Usenet at large, for that matter)?

[...]

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Post by Ivan Shmakov

Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry group
in Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been in the
fandom for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics and retro
internet culture ! I like video games and all kinds of music.

It's on life-support... There are a few of us who never stopped
monitoring the group, but...

... But I don't suppose many actually went into popularizing it
(or Usenet at large, for that matter)?

At one time, there were a set of independent "furry" servers with
better retention and less spam. Critter.com lasted until a server hardware
failure and the owner could no longer justify rebuilding a UseNet server
for the fading traffic -- especially when he couldn't get peering to the
main Usenet for AFF and ALF. Google shows a number of "furnet.org" servers,
but the web site information seems to imply they only offer IRC.

[tom]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:19:20 -0500

Post by Dennis Lee Bieber

Post by Ivan Shmakov

Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry
group in Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been
in the fandom for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics
and retro internet culture ! I like video games and all kinds
of music.

It's on life-support... There are a few of us who never stopped
monitoring the group, but...

... But I don't suppose many actually went into popularizing
it (or Usenet at large, for that matter)?

At one time, there were a set of independent "furry" servers
with better retention and less spam. Critter.com lasted until a
server hardware failure and the owner could no longer justify
rebuilding a UseNet server for the fading traffic -- especially when
he couldn't get peering to the main Usenet for AFF and ALF. Google
shows a number of "furnet.org" servers, but the web site information
seems to imply they only offer IRC.

Your website just goes to a earthlink page, do you have an updated link?
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Post by tom
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:19:20 -0500
Your website just goes to a earthlink page, do you have an updated link?

If that is in reference to my signature... Back when Earthlink was also
my ISP and DSL provider (actualling reselling AT&T DSL service), I had
(grandfathered) access to Usenet via them, along with 10MB of web-space
storage per email address (I used four of the 8 allowed to the service).

When I moved, last summer, it was to a location at which AT&T no longer
provided basic DSL (riding on a POTS phone line). My choice was to have
AT&T connect POTS phone line, then submit that phone line to Earthlink for
"high speed Internet" (which was their resold AT&T U-verse service), which
would require changing the phone line from POTS to digital... OR just have
AT&T connect the phone line as U-verse VOIP and Internet (bundled with
DirectTV into one bill). Earthlink, for around $8 a month, offers
email-only service (for up to 5 email addresses) -- so I converted just to
retain my four email addresses. However, I immediately lost Usenet and had
to find an alternative provider (actually, Earthlink stopped running their
own servers years ago, and subcontracted Giganews for the job).

It was back in March that Earthlink apparently ran an audit and wiped
out the four 10MB web sites. I've since opened a port on my router, and
configured a Raspberry Pi 3B to run nginx, accessed via a dynamic DNS
system. That bad: limited upload rate from U-verse (about 1Mbps upload, vs
14Mbps download) and risk of wearing out SD card storage on RPi from
cycling log files. The good: I'm not limited to 10MB per site (there is
over 6GB unused on the SD card).

[tom]

On Thu, 30 May 2019 18:48:26 -0400

Post by Dennis Lee Bieber

Post by tom
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:19:20 -0500
Your website just goes to a earthlink page, do you have an updated link?

If that is in reference to my signature... Back when
Earthlink was also my ISP and DSL provider (actualling reselling AT&T
DSL service), I had (grandfathered) access to Usenet via them, along
with 10MB of web-space storage per email address (I used four of the
8 allowed to the service).
When I moved, last summer, it was to a location at which AT&T
no longer provided basic DSL (riding on a POTS phone line). My choice
was to have AT&T connect POTS phone line, then submit that phone line
to Earthlink for "high speed Internet" (which was their resold AT&T
U-verse service), which would require changing the phone line from
POTS to digital... OR just have AT&T connect the phone line as
U-verse VOIP and Internet (bundled with DirectTV into one bill).
Earthlink, for around $8 a month, offers email-only service (for up
to 5 email addresses) -- so I converted just to retain my four email
addresses. However, I immediately lost Usenet and had to find an
alternative provider (actually, Earthlink stopped running their own
servers years ago, and subcontracted Giganews for the job).
It was back in March that Earthlink apparently ran an audit
and wiped out the four 10MB web sites. I've since opened a port on my
router, and configured a Raspberry Pi 3B to run nginx, accessed via a
dynamic DNS system. That bad: limited upload rate from U-verse (about
1Mbps upload, vs 14Mbps download) and risk of wearing out SD card
storage on RPi from cycling log files. The good: I'm not limited to
10MB per site (there is over 6GB unused on the SD card).

that's fantastic! I love personal hand-done homepages! Thank you for
sharing.

If you are interested, I will be building out a new webserver soon and
wouldn't mind giving you a couple hundred megs of free static hosting
on my new webserver. That is if you would rather not maintain a
raspberry pi.

I do this kind of stuff professionally. I greatly enjoy seeing original
content and hand-done stuff on the web, and I was so sad when GeoCities
destroyed decades worth of web history when they canceled their
services. That's why I don't mind hosting other people's sites as long
as they are small, and static.
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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Post by tom
that's fantastic! I love personal hand-done homepages! Thank you for
sharing.

Pity HomeSite HTML editor vanished (having been absorbed by Macromedia
and hence to Adobe -- which killed it in favor of their graphical web
development application). I prefer to /see/ the tags -- I've seen some of
the garbage graphical editors can produce (especially if one start toggling
stuff from say, bold to italic and back.

Post by tom
If you are interested, I will be building out a new webserver soon and
wouldn't mind giving you a couple hundred megs of free static hosting
on my new webserver. That is if you would rather not maintain a
raspberry pi.

Thanks, but I'll stick with what I have... After all, I may use it as a
test bed for setting up an application using Flask -- like maybe
implementing a card catalog for my books (and then hauling boxes from
storage just to index the contents before putting them back -- I've got
around 100 cubic feet [6" x 2' x 1' boxes] of books in storage).

[tom]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:41:28 -0800 (PST)

Post by Felix Ferret
Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry group in
Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been in the fandom
for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics and retro internet
culture ! I like video games and all kinds of music.

Hello there, Glad to meet you.

I don't know about calling this Retro, more like the majority is stuck
in a fad where they let a single company or entity control and moderate
their online discussion. I'm still here until something truly better
comes along. If you consider anything with a few years behind it retro
maybe.

Anyways, it's good to have you.
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Post by Felix Ferret
Hey, my name is Felix! I did not know that there was a furry group in Usenet still alive. Nice to meet everyone. I've been in the fandom for many years. I'm a fan of retro web aesthetics and retro internet culture ! I like video games and all kinds of music.

Hey Felix,
nice to meet you too ^_^
Nice to see somebody in the Fandom being a fan of "retro" technics and
such. I own one old Sun SPARC-machine from 2002, that's a really retro
thing *g* I neither knew that there's something furry on Usenet, but
well, us furries are everywhere :v
It's such a good feeling when some Webpages load in a few seconds and
don't pop up here, and there, and there's a colourful bar, have some
JavaScript here and there ... bleh.
Have a look at the pages of the OpenBSD-project, they load nicely fast. :)