The alarm clock says "[01:59]". Time goes fast.

Setting up an inbound-only SMTP server is remarkably easy, especially on OpenBSD. What was more complex was to think about how this server would be used by its inhabitants, while being managable by a full staff of one person: me.

I declare the very first nixers community gopher server ALIVE ! Browse it at gopher://g.nixers.net.

Anyone that wants an account can drop me a mail (contact at z3bra dot org) or PM me on the forums. I'll need your ssh public key, and I'll reuse your forum's nickname for the account name. I'll also need your email address, to configure your email to gopherlog address.

In your HOME will sit a "public_gopher" symlink pointing to your very cool gopher hole. Any file dropped in it is instantly visible online. You'll also notice an "rlog" directory. Every mail sent to USER@g.nixers.net will create a file in this directory, and generate and index.gph file listing the entries with a (maybe) cool nixers header. I will need an email address from which you plan to phlog, to configure the restriction.

I hope we'll see some cool content !

Oh and BTW, I suck at doing ASCII art. If you have ideas to decorate the gopher hole, send them to me. I'll be glad to replace the shitty stuff I created for the moment !