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  • Feature Request: Newslink - Drop/Ignore yEnc encoded messages. Add opt

    From Errol Casey@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sat Jul 12 17:45:08 2025
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/950

    After migrating from Avon (Paul's) Usenet service which was announced to be sunset, when using real usenet provider I learned folks abuse non binary groups to send binaries.

    I blew through a 25GB quota in less than 30 days, due to approx 400 messages posted in comp.lang.c++ was actually a multi-part yEnc encoded binary posted to multiple usenet newsgroups including comp.lang.c++

    Sample text from such messages

    =ybegin part=270 line=128 size=104857600 name=Supermarket Simulator 1-0-1.part01.rar â–’
    =ypart begin=103296001 end=103680000

    Although the message size seem to vary, some were large 400,000 Bytes and larger; so having a size limit may also be a way to fight this abuse. Although, some of the messages seem normal size 26667 bytes which leads me to believe newslink isn't capturing all the data in the message base (which is good); but I'm sure it is pulling (requesting) it from the USENET provider hence me blowing through my quota.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YEnc
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  • From phigan@1:103/705 to Errol Casey on Sun Jul 13 03:28:01 2025
    Re: Feature Request: Newslink - Drop/Ignore yEnc encoded messages. Add opt
    By: Errol Casey to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sat Jul 12 2025 05:45 pm

    After migrating from Avon (Paul's)
    Usenet service which was announced t
    be sunset, when using real usenet

    If you're just interested in the text
    groups, have you checked out Eternal
    September? I think that was the name,
    anyway. It's free.
    And probably at eternalseptember.org
    I hope that's right.

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  • From phigan@1:103/705 to Errol Casey on Sun Jul 13 03:34:20 2025
    Re: Feature Request: Newslink - Dr
    By: phigan to Errol Casey on Sun Jul 13 2025 03:28 am

    And probably at eternalseptember.org
    I hope that's right.

    Sorry, it's actually eternal-september.org

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  • From Errol Casey@1:3634/58 to phigan on Sun Jul 13 09:33:03 2025
    Re: Feature Request: Newslink - Dr
    By: phigan to Errol Casey on Sun Jul 13 2025 03:28 am

    Re: Feature Request: Newslink - Drop/Ignore yEnc encoded messages. Add opt
    By: Errol Casey to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sat Jul 12 2025 05:45 pm

    After migrating from Avon (Paul's)
    Usenet service which was announced t
    be sunset, when using real usenet

    If you're just interested in the text
    groups, have you checked out Eternal
    September? I think that was the name,
    anyway. It's free.
    And probably at eternalseptember.org
    I hope that's right.

    Yes, I've heard of eternal-september. I had just recently learned of novabbs . And found the author/maintainer passed two months ago. He had a software project called rock solid light. He has some news groups fed by RSS feeds; and I pull them in my e-s.

    I had read some bad things about e-s and didn't know if it was reliable to use as a feed for normal news groups. So I had went to a direct provider, and astra web had been recommented by a few people.

    A work peer recommended news daemon and they have a block plan that can auto renew, at $3. And the block is 50GB vs 25GB @ $10 with astra. So that is what i'm using right now. Thanks for the pointer/reminder to e-s.
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