FidoNet is still living, however it lacks at least strong authentication and data confidentiality (no crypto used at all). But it shows that people could be capable of creating global networks without unwanted third-parties.

For building store-and-forward networks I created NNCP several years ago and lack of connectivity, censorship (making no connection links) are one of the issues it aims to solve: http://www.nncpgo.org/Use-cases.html

Personally I used Python's tnote program, but, because of Python, it worked pretty slowly. So I rewrite on pure POSIX shell and it serves me for nearly ten years: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=t.git;a=blob;f=t

Comparing to author's solution, it gives ability to briefly list notes, use multiple "namespaces", quickly add (without invoking the editor), delete or modify each specified note. Also there is no bashism and it works out of box on *BSD (that lacks bash) and GNU systems.

No, multiple output is not covered. gored passes on all my projects, even containing complicated redo-stamp/redo-always dependencies the same as apenwarr/redo. Not everything is passed in its testsuite, but I did not dig why. In practice it is complete replacement for my needs with the same behaviour.

SGBlog (http://sgblog.stargrave.org/) is Git-backed blogging engine with gopher protocol support (for making plogs). Out of the box, just with inetd.

And my answer to them: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2019-...

I have posted link on HN to Dataforge UUCP because I have been interested in store-and-forward networks for a long years. All my email passing between notebook and my email servers used UUCP-over-SSH for years. But soon I create NNCP (http://www.nncpgo.org/) project and totally moved all my email/files store-and-forward networks to it. Possibly it could be interested to you.

Done in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190970

Anonymity is not the goal, because it is another separate task.

NNCP contains nncp-daemon and nncp-caller that work with online protocol. It uses Noise protocol: http://noiseprotocol.org/ (Noise-IK). So ratcheting as Signal does is already applied. http://www.nncpgo.org/Sync.html

Wonderful, I had no idea what Noise was, or Signal for that matter, or NNCP despite reading the article. Thanks for the links! Guess I'll get back to my punch cards.

Really interesting project! Must look on it much more closer! Thanks for the pointer.

Unfortunately NNTP(like) is the only thing I have never touched at all. I have several years of experience with FidoNet's echomail (this is like NNTP), but today I see that most of discussion is done in mailing lists and I have got no usecases I really could use with something like NNTP (and that is disappointing, because I really like that echomail/news nature).