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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 Newsgroup: rocksolid.nodes.help

On 07.09.25 02:57, Soul Patch wrote:

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.

https://github.com/go-while/rocksolid-light/tree/claude-sonnet-4-test2/archive

https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light

https://pugleaf.net/snaps/rocksolid-us-2025-09-03.torrent
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From Newsgroup: rocksolid.nodes.help

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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From Newsgroup: rocksolid.nodes.help

On 07.09.25 03:12, Billy G. wrote:

On 07.09.25 02:57, Soul Patch wrote:

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.

https://github.com/go-while/rocksolid-light/tree/claude-sonnet-4-test2/archive

https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light

https://pugleaf.net/snaps/rocksolid-us-2025-09-03.torrent

Here are the last original php databases from server
rslight at rocksolidbbs.com and etc/rslight config dir.


2.4G SPOOL DATABASES https://reader-nyc.newsdeef.eu/storage/rocksolidbbs.com-spool.tar.gz

https://web.archive.org/web/20250909133739/https://reader-nyc.newsdeef.eu/storage/rocksolidbbs.com-spool.tar.gz
There was a delay in registering this snapshot with the Wayback Machine.
The snapshot may not be available right now, please try again later.

173M WEB https://reader-nyc.newsdeef.eu/storage/rocksolidbbs.com-var-www-news.tar.gz

https://web.archive.org/web/20250909140504/https://reader-nyc.newsdeef.eu/storage/rocksolidbbs.com-var-www-news.tar.gz

md5sum rocksolidbbs.com-var-www-news.tar.gz
c5d5543b455c0ff0a0f9fd035c919edf

601K CONFIGS https://reader-nyc.newsdeef.eu/storage/rocksolidbbs.com-etc-rslight.tar.gz

https://web.archive.org/web/20250909133723/https://reader-nyc.newsdeef.eu/storage/rocksolidbbs.com-etc-rslight.tar.gz

md5sum rocksolidbbs.com-etc-rslight.tar.gz
822f0b229c64f9ab827e9a4e62709800

md5sum rocksolidbbs.com-spool.tar.gz
53cd27750daf8eeaa95a4b45aa5b2356


It's also backuped in pugleaf databases in this torrent: https://pugleaf.net/snaps/rocksolid-us-2025-09-03.torrent

db/HASH/ folders are newsgroups names to MD5:

rocksolid.shared.encryption
c0de2f9e455c35220731bc21930a7baf -

rocksolid.shared.entertainment
954f62655584388853d87b8f96cf43bb -

rocksolid.shared.freenet
fe56d50561e55c45084ac4eb579ef8ee -

rocksolid.shared.general
5ac623f07bab65e3cf1ad03f11d93e02 -

rocksolid.shared.hacking
59408e60d37bbf03862944bdc7746d38 -

rocksolid.shared.helpdesk
3fa864c99d5503fafbc7fa15ea109c8b -

rocksolid.shared.i2p
ad6c20be9d2e54d0922da2bc39d99e4c -

rocksolid.shared.linux
3927f8461de1383a42a031105af79d4b -

rocksolid.shared.news
be293fc9e49fa8c6bed8855ce3a2c861 -

rocksolid.feeds.news
e9f62e1d7bcac38246cfae68da9700bb -

rocksolid.feeds.tech
4f88301b091e01e4d5afadf516d88bee -

rocksolid.nodes
6d8c9d0a08929dd63c47c33259c2a245 -

rocksolid.nodes.help
3ca7ab74a82d454ad6da73272351023b -

rocksolid.nodes.announce
7850d88c5b3f831bd1a5d11d8a6c3155 -

rocksolid.shared.offtopic
c05a10e562ca59bf7e62e668c35d43fe -

rocksolid.programming
374e9fc97a3aefbf39cdaed6d63e480a -

rocksolid.shared.rocksolid
d10466deeb6ca55a9ec3965829ffe6ff -

rocksolid.shared.security
d8f0480d1b2291e4e26766c2881b247b -

rocksolid.social
02ae6e55e3341f7d6485551dbfc54550 -

rocksolid.shared.test
2ef0b8ccec3c3c0bface80c95af07ab4 -

rocksolid.shared.tor
2e2d342188294caef17dfa74fe845b6b -

EOF
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From Newsgroup: rocksolid.nodes.help

Op 7-9-2025 om 7:52 schreef Marco Moock:

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.

ES had some issues in 2024 and has the hierarchy since june/july 2024.

paganini.bofh.team has older messages.

I do not know about blueworldhosting.

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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