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  • Archiving NovaBBS, Rocksolid Light and Retro Guy Artifacts

    From Soul Patch@soul.patch@127.0.0.1 to rocksolid.nodes.help, news.admin.peering, news.software.nntp on Sat Sep 6 20:57:27 2025
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    I am archiving artifacts related to Retro Guy and his Rocksolid Light software and NovaBBS ecosystem. I want to build a comprehensive archive and make it freely available.

    I am hunting for a complete history of articles posted to the rocksolid.* hierarchy for all historical newsgroups in that hierarchy.

    I am hunting for earlier versions of the Rocksolid Light forums and NNTP server. In particular I would like to find the first publicly released version.

    I checked the wayback machine at archive.org. I didn't find very much early material.

    Does anyone have anything relevant to share?

    I would rather not see Retro Guy and his work go down the memory hole.

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  • From Marco Moock@mm@dorfdsl.de to rocksolid.nodes.help,news.admin.peering,news.software.nntp on Sun Sep 7 07:52:07 2025
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    On 06.09.2025 20:57 Uhr Soul Patch wrote:

    I am hunting for a complete history of articles posted to the
    rocksolid.* hierarchy for all historical newsgroups in that hierarchy.

    E-S has that hierarchy since 2022, this might be the oldest one. blueworldhosting might have more.

    I am hunting for earlier versions of the Rocksolid Light forums and
    NNTP server. In particular I would like to find the first publicly
    released version.

    There is a git repo, you can check the history. https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light
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    kind regards
    Marco

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