From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

Hi all,

whether you are a privacy enthusiast, journalist, activist
or whistle blower, b4u allows you to send files directly
via Tor or with Mixmaster, when saved locally, to the Usenet
group alt.anonymous.messages.

Files are split as individual Usenet articles with a modern
esub Subject: line, so that all articles can be later retrieved
with b4u via Tor.

An example session:

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop>b4u -k test -s -S news.tcpreset.net:119 -n alt.anonymous.messages random-binary-file
Split random-binary-file into 16 blocks of 64 KB each
Posted article 1/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 8b741fdce24864469d0dbed435c90ec9d06d30a925043cb1)
Posted article 2/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 1965b0516041923d25bbfd3c40e381fe3b864c7ee80cf4bb)
Posted article 3/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 1447a1de76128f31e68d135c7f760c54003741f9d8df42fe)
Posted article 4/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 82077511a4b90edb8164f1a4e69d44836960e8d4b1187225)
Posted article 5/16 for random-binary-file (esub: fe7d7bd495df9a3fe6797c60bcabffafc1d289aee37e5bd0)
Posted article 6/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 929ab3fece43e66ee13b84f290fb9809941ae0a55bbebc9b)
Posted article 7/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 1d80221cfda3bd79da0914402da6b0b30bd66bbbab3ea523)
Posted article 8/16 for random-binary-file (esub: dac6cb31b7be835a95ab984403016b194acdaa504843689a)
Posted article 9/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 1e1fb9ae4630f330fbbc15049fbf601d9c3b75c45528dccf)
Posted article 10/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 67e9db17c406d4037575375b25b7be5315b1475d80e5ad47)
Posted article 11/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 63844e064507b8bb1db243cf02fad7b9747c4f6119b03022)
Posted article 12/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 8a85d05a34505debf02649b193f203dc23bbb33a717e7a74)
Posted article 13/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 7078d43e8ca5ad88bf06451707f683a46df2b5b7f65ee84b)
Posted article 14/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 61351a79f9c700976bda77d330e73637eae652518b680095)
Posted article 15/16 for random-binary-file (esub: ca578cb7698d5e10f73e05ea4edb1ae12ec58f0c72bbd6fb)
Posted article 16/16 for random-binary-file (esub: 1fbc3c44a4eeabdfa59270c475d5834418dc658b1c8a2f52)
Successfully sent 16 articles for random-binary-file

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop>b4u -r -k test -n alt.anonymous.messages -S news.tcpreset.net:119

Processing file: random-binary-file
Found 1 different versions (different totals)
Version with 16 total parts: found 16 articles
Completeness: 100.0% (16/16)
Reconstructed: random-binary-file (16 parts)

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet service!*

Regards
Stefan
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b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://www.fbi.gov/

Don't download anything from here, this guy is a fed!

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Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Stefan,

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet service!*

Thanks for the kind words about the Usenet service!
I find yEnc encoding brilliant, transforming binaries into plain text is elegant and efficient.

It's a pleasure to discover innovative tools like b4u.
Keep up the great work!

Regards
Gabx
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https://news.tcpreset.net
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Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Stefan,

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet

service!*

Thanks for the kind words about the Usenet service!
I find yEnc encoding brilliant, transforming binaries into plain text

is elegant and efficient.

It's a pleasure to discover innovative tools like b4u.
Keep up the great work!

Regards

Love and kisses Stefan!

Gabx

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Anonymous wrote:

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://www.fbi.gov/

Don't download anything from here, this guy is a fed!

Get some therapy to cure your psychosis, kid.
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Anonymous User wrote:

Love and kisses Stefan!

Tu m'as dit que tu n'|-tais pas jaloux, salope !
You told me you weren't jealous bitch!
E+aoae*>eueaE+aE+iuy>o2eoaAtUao-eo!E!
+e+a+- +a+e +u+a+a +a+|+- +|+o+c+#+- +|+e+e+#!
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Gabx wrote:

Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Stefan,

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet service!*

Thanks for the kind words about the Usenet service!

Hi Gabx,

your service is *really* excellent, compared to others!
Can't say this enough!

I find yEnc encoding brilliant, transforming binaries into plain text is elegant and efficient.

Yes, yEnc ist interesting, but I wanted to have a very simple,
powerful and efficient tool, which even QSL users understand.

It's a pleasure to discover innovative tools like b4u.
Keep up the great work!

I remember the Dutch SpotNet, which works on top of Usenet, with
it's client, but found the documentation to sparse to create such
a client, hence b4u, which I think is more flexible.

I already tested today with -b 256 and cross-posting and it works
as expected with your server! :-) Next test will be to do it via
Mixmaster 3.1, from Richard (Windows version), to see if b4u fetches
also correctly, when the articles are not in the same part order.

Otherwise, I think b4u is now production ready as of today, because
now it supports also a custom From: header.

Best regards
Stefan
--
-y-+ -a-+-U-U-+-+ -U -+-A-#-+-#-i-A.
https://radio-eriwan.ru


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b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://www.fbi.gov/

Don't download anything from here, this guy is a fed!

Get some therapy to cure your psychosis, kid.

Just the kind of thing a fed would say, tell me, how does it feel
for your cover to be blown wide open?

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Radio Eriwan wrote:

I already tested today with -b 256 and cross-posting and it works
as expected with your server! :-) Next test will be to do it via
Mixmaster 3.1, from Richard (Windows version), to see if b4u fetches
also correctly, when the articles are not in the same part order.

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop>b4u -k aam -n alt.anonymous.messages -e -t mail2news@oc2mx.net Radio-Eriwan.jpg
Split Radio-Eriwan.jpg into 3 blocks of 64 KB each
Saved article: 0001.txt (original: Radio-Eriwan.jpg part 1/3)
Saved article: 0002.txt (original: Radio-Eriwan.jpg part 2/3)
Saved article: 0003.txt (original: Radio-Eriwan.jpg part 3/3)

Total articles saved: 3
Files created: 0001.txt, 0002.txt, ...

Manifest saved: manifest.json (3 entries)
README saved: README.txt

Summary of created files:
Radio-Eriwan.jpg: 3 parts

To send all articles to Usenet:
b4u -s -k "aam" -n "newsgroup" -S "server:port" *.txt

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop>cd mix

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop\mix>mix -m -S -l middleman,*,iria < 0001.txt
[etc.]

Hope that the three articles arrive in random order, so that
I can test proper fetching and automatically decoding ans saving
the .jpg image.

Regards
Stefan
--
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https://radio-eriwan.ru


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Apple Fanboy wrote:

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository, under Releases.

https://www.fbi.gov/

Don't download anything from here, this guy is a fed!

Get some therapy to cure your psychosis, kid.

Just the kind of thing a fed would say, tell me, how does it feel
for your cover to be blown wide open?

You have no idea how annoying it is sometimes to respond to you idiots,
because you're just not mature and grown-up enough and can only talk
nonsense instead of making valuable contributions to Usenet.

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to waste my time on you.
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https://radio-eriwan.ru

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Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hope that the three articles arrive in random order, so that
I can test proper fetching and automatically decoding ans saving
the .jpg image.

Argh... one article arrived, but without the X-Content: header,
because I have not whitelisted this header in my m2n Go code...

Will now resend via dizum m2n and hope this works with dizum...

I fix the code tomorrow.

Regards
Stefan
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https://radio-eriwan.ru


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Radio Eriwan wrote:

Gabx wrote:

Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Stefan,

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet service!* >>

Thanks for the kind words about the Usenet service!

Hi Gabx,

your service is *really* excellent, compared to others!
Can't say this enough!

If you recall, this server was born from our need for an NNTP where we
could "experiment" with our applications. Then there was a period of
testing and fine-tuning, during which I also gained experience with
NNTP. Since you like *news tcpreset*, I can officially declare the
testing period over. My campaign to re-evaluate Usenet continues. Usenet
has been decentralized by nature since its first day of life, and, as
you taught me, a text-only NNTP server can now transfer binaries, if I understand correctly. Do you agree?

I had no way to find out very busy these days.

Regards

Gabx
--
https://yamn.virebent.art
https://news.tcpreset.net
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Gabx wrote:

Radio Eriwan wrote:

Gabx wrote:

Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Stefan,

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository, under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet service!*

Thanks for the kind words about the Usenet service!

Hi Gabx,

your service is *really* excellent, compared to others!
Can't say this enough!

If you recall, this server was born from our need for an NNTP where we
could "experiment" with our applications. Then there was a period of
testing and fine-tuning, during which I also gained experience with
NNTP. Since you like *news tcpreset*, I can officially declare the
testing period over. My campaign to re-evaluate Usenet continues. Usenet
has been decentralized by nature since its first day of life, and, as
you taught me, a text-only NNTP server can now transfer binaries, if I understand correctly. Do you agree?

I had no way to find out very busy these days.

Yes, I fully agree. Regarding binaries, the idea behind it is to transfer
and receive important documents etc., like an encrypted .pdf or maybe an encrypted image[1], either directly with b4u and news.tcpreset.net or via
my m2n, which I added the X-Content: header now, and Mixmaster.

b4u fills IMHO a gap and it is also useful besides a.a.m. in other, no longer used, Newsgroups. The header format is kept very simple and with the esub Subject: line it fits nicely into a.a.m. and retrieving a file is super easy and with the help of the -rc parameter (replay cache) you avoid downloading things twice and third parties can not upload the same esub things twice.

[1]https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/pngcrypt

Regards
Stefan


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Radio Eriwan wrote:

Yes, I fully agree. Regarding binaries, the idea behind it is to transfer
and receive important documents etc., like an encrypted .pdf or maybe an encrypted image[1], either directly with b4u and news.tcpreset.net or via
my m2n, which I added the X-Content: header now, and Mixmaster.

b4u fills IMHO a gap and it is also useful besides a.a.m. in other, no longer used, Newsgroups. The header format is kept very simple and with the esub Subject: line it fits nicely into a.a.m. and retrieving a file is super easy and with the help of the -rc parameter (replay cache) you avoid downloading things twice and third parties can not upload the same esub things twice.

Usenet as an home made interplanetary filesystem ,
genial ! :)

B4U can send chunks of any size, i agree with defaults 64kb but 256kb as maximum adviced for tcpreset is too much for policy and disk space. https://news.tcpreset.net/#peering

[1]https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/pngcrypt

I like little applications for little duties, it's *unix style* !

Gabx
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https://news.tcpreset.net
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Gabx wrote:

Radio Eriwan wrote:

Yes, I fully agree. Regarding binaries, the idea behind it is to transfer and receive important documents etc., like an encrypted .pdf or maybe an encrypted image[1], either directly with b4u and news.tcpreset.net or via my m2n, which I added the X-Content: header now, and Mixmaster.

b4u fills IMHO a gap and it is also useful besides a.a.m. in other, no longer
used, Newsgroups. The header format is kept very simple and with the esub Subject: line it fits nicely into a.a.m. and retrieving a file is super easy
and with the help of the -rc parameter (replay cache) you avoid downloading things twice and third parties can not upload the same esub things twice.

Usenet as an home made interplanetary filesystem ,
genial ! :)

He he. ;-)

B4U can send chunks of any size, i agree with defaults 64kb but 256kb as maximum adviced for tcpreset is too much for policy and disk space. https://news.tcpreset.net/#peering

Thanks for the info! -b 256 work perfectly with news.tcpreset.net and then
it is lesser parts to download. I tried now with different setting and four images. You can use the latest uploaded version from GitHub and do a:

$ b4u -v -r -k aamapas -S news.tcpreset.net -n alt.anonymous.messages

to view the images on your PC. :-)
--
Regards
Stefan
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On 09 Feb 2026, Radio Eriwan <bounce.me@radio-eriwan.ru> posted some news:e46542f636e41cb82266c4@radio-eriwan.ru:

Gabx wrote:

Radio Eriwan wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Stefan,

b4u can be downloaded as compiled binary from my GitHub repository,
under Releases.

https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

*Special thanks goes to Gabx, for providing and excellent Usenet
service!*

Thanks for the kind words about the Usenet service!

Hi Gabx,

your service is *really* excellent, compared to others!
Can't say this enough!

it's getting more reliable. minimail-fe v.1.3.2 doesn't work with it any
more since some recent changes.

I find yEnc encoding brilliant, transforming binaries into plain text
is elegant and efficient.

Yes, yEnc ist interesting, but I wanted to have a very simple,
powerful and efficient tool, which even QSL users understand.

we've been sharing media with years with it.

It's a pleasure to discover innovative tools like b4u.
Keep up the great work!

I remember the Dutch SpotNet, which works on top of Usenet, with
it's client, but found the documentation to sparse to create such
a client, hence b4u, which I think is more flexible.

I already tested today with -b 256 and cross-posting and it works
as expected with your server! :-) Next test will be to do it via
Mixmaster 3.1, from Richard (Windows version), to see if b4u fetches
also correctly, when the articles are not in the same part order.

Otherwise, I think b4u is now production ready as of today, because
now it supports also a custom From: header.

Best regards
Stefan

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Nomen Nescio wrote:

minimail-fe v.1.3.2

I don't know this application.
Should i ? lol

Regards
Gabx
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