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Re: Any good introductions for Kermit?

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On 2025-04-24, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it's called IKSD.  It's fun to play around with, but lacks modern TLS and
>> such.
>>
>
> I have it mostly working, though just on my private network for now.  I
> recall seeing Kermit back when I used BBS's, which is why I was curious
> about it now.

Indeed!  My first use for it was actually getting data onto my HP-48GX
calculator.

[snip]

> It stumbled across your site which got me interested in kermit, and I've
> been looking at NNCP as I may have a use case for it.  Older
> technologies seem to have solved problems that people are reinventing
> solutions for now.

Feel free to drop me an email with NNCP questions as well.  I check
comp.mail.uucp periodically (monthly?) but an email to me or to the nncp-devel
list will likely get a faster response.

> Appreciate your help, and your work keeping this knowledge around.

And thanks for your interest!

- John

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Any good introductions for Kermit? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-23 12:14 +0000
  Re: Any good introductions for Kermit? John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2025-04-23 13:06 +0000
    Re: Any good introductions for Kermit? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-24 14:09 +0000
      Re: Any good introductions for Kermit? John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2025-04-25 17:14 +0000
  Re: Any good introductions for Kermit? David Goodwin <david+usenet@zx.net.nz> - 2025-04-24 13:50 +1200
    Re: Any good introductions for Kermit? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-24 14:30 +0000
      Re: Any good introductions for Kermit? David Goodwin <david+usenet@zx.net.nz> - 2025-04-25 13:07 +1200

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