Subj : Re: Waffle
To   : paulie420
From : Gdclark
Date : Wed Dec 22 2021 08:29 pm

  Re: Re: Waffle
  By: paulie420 to Gdclark on Wed Dec 22 2021 05:52 pm

 > Thanks a ton, Gordon. I've grabbed it quite easily and added to 2o for
 > archiving.. and I'm gonna dig it at some point in the near future.
 >
 > I think compiling might be above my pay grade, but I do wanna take a peek. I
 > can compile basic things, but I bet yer right that it will take a few or
 > more version steps - with modification - to get it going.
 >
 > Thanks, much, for the link.

You are very welcome! I've been a fan of WAFFLE for a very long time and I'd like to see it march on into the future.

I hadn't known anything much about the author until recently when I found he (Tom Dell) went by Soylent and appeared in "BBS: The Documentary" (available on YouTube).

Since then, I found what I think is the full interview with him on archive.org in a video called "BBS Documentary Interview: Soylent and Harrison Page".

I came to the BBS world from Unix at work. I wanted to access Usenet at home on my MS-DOS machine and that led me to WAFFLE. I also ran Coherent, Linux, and the various BSDs of that time (e.g., 386BSD) but WAFFLE always impressed me as a great way to access Usenet plus it was fun.

My interest today is because I like the idea of a network of peers where people control their own systems without being tagged and tracked. I'd really like a single-user, combination Usenet reader/server, that requires virtually no configuration except running SETUP.EXE, entering the name(s) of your peer system(s), and choosing what groups to read. It shouldn't be harder than setting up an email client to talk SMTP/IMAP to some server but it would be a peer that would relay Usenet.

  -- Gordon.

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