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Mostly RFC1436 compliant

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Scribo, the email-based phlog generator (z3bra.org)
submitted 2 years ago by wgs to c/gopher
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I made a simple tool some time ago to extract the content of an email, and publish it to a gopher hole.

To put it simply, the subject is used as the title, and the body is put into the log entry (optionnaly passed through a command, like fmt(1) for example. The original email sender is verified, to prevent spams from cluttering your phlog. It might not be the most secure method, but that works for me ^tm^.

You can see it in action here:

  • gopher://phlog.z3bra.org
  • gopher://g.nixers.net/7/~anon/twtxt.dcgi
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[โ€“] wgs 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never heard about it before. It does sound similar indeed ! I'm curious to know what security mechanism they used to make sure only the author would submit new posts. I'll check it out, thanks !

[โ€“] rickumali 2 points 2 years ago

It was cool to use, but it is no longer in service. I still have the old emails I sent! For them, they had an email address (post@posterous.com) that you would send the BLOG post. I'm guessing they checked the FROM to know whicih BLOG to update!