Draft Communications Action Planning¶

Introduction¶

John Goerzen has brought back to life UUCP e-mail through the use of NNCP, apparently. This beast is called NNCPNET and there is already a proof of concept implementation. This can now optionally gate to the Internet.

In light of the present challenged operating environment (Simple English) (English), it is necessary to consider alternative communication systems. After all, the possible implementation of Palantir upon federal data sets about citizens can lead to oppression. Data flows might need to be removed from the open Internet.

Welcome to a nightmare in the style of Cyberpunk 2020, it seems.

Random Thoughts¶

There are tools like rss2email. Finding a counterpart that can dump to IMAP may be useful. In any case, John’s NNCPNET suite has an Exim server bundled in its local kit. That allows a local mail client like Thunderbird to interact normally with something while NNCP handles the transport. NNCP can handle a sort of frozen transport where you can freeze your mail traffic to a USB flash drive to be hand-carried to the next stop in its transfer route. You can ultimately have disconnected, hand-carried e-mail. Since rss2email can write HTML e-mails you can conceivably have a machine connected to the hostile Internet download RSS feeds once per day and write them to a shadow realm NNCPNET e-mail address. When the mail gets bundled for transfer to the relatively gapped computer you can move reading material to the destination machine for reading.

This could function a bit like El Paquete Semanal, I suppose.

Development¶

Further development is required.