Signatures get a makeover
At the request of the legendary Usenet personality Steve Leyland, RootBadger now supports longer, more obnoxious signatures. To preserve everyone's sanity, there's also a new profile setting that aut...
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Feature Suggestion: User-Defined Headers
I'd like to suggest allowing users to create their own custom posting headers, similar to the old Usenet X- headers. For example: X-Coffee: Black X-Mood: Grumpy X-Currently-Reading: Dune X-Listening...
shade tree rules still count
I still say half of keeping an old car alive is just not getting in a hurry. Everybody wants the fancy scan tool answer, and sometimes yeah, that thing helps. But most of the time I start with the du...
Remote attack Buffer Overflow: Xnews 5.04.25 (April 2002) and Xnews 2006.06.28 test build
Software: Xnews Usenet newsreader Versions affected: Xnews 5.04.25 (April 2002) and Xnews 2006.06.28 test build. All prior versions likely affected. Developer: Luu Tran (xnews.newsguy.com — defunct) S...
old parts counters beat guessing online
Yesterday I had to find a weird little carb spring, and the internet kept trying to sell me the whole kit. Old guy at the parts counter looked at it for about two seconds, walked in the back, and cam...
Michigan lighthouse Bigfoot report has a decent old-school feel
Saw this one making the rounds: two sisters near Whitefish Point Lighthouse in Paradise, Michigan, say they saw a big dark figure down on the Lake Superior beach around dusk while they were out with a...
that patterson gimlin film still gets me
I know folks pick that Patterson/Gimlin film apart frame by frame and some of it gets way over my head. But I still say there is something there. That walk don't look like a guy clowning around in a...
This might be the best Bigfoot footage I have seen
I keep coming back to this one. To my eye this is about the best evidence I have seen on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8HlylRVoM What gets me is the way it moves. Not stiff like some guy...
I believe there is something out there
I know plenty of folks laugh when Bigfoot comes up, but I am not one of them. You spend enough time around timber, old logging roads, creek bottoms, and farm country after dark, you learn real quick...
Chinch bugs in St. Augustine grass
Back when I lived in Florida, chinch bugs were always one of the things you had to watch for in St. Augustine grass. Picture here: https://www.gardenia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ChatGPT-Image-Se...
Green lacewings are worth knowing
Found a decent green lacewing picture here: https://cdn.commercev3.net/cdn.arbico-organics.com/images/category/2025-green-lacewing-category-image-300x300_2.jpg Good little bug to have around the gar...
Figured we needed a garage group
Figured RootBadger needed a place for car and track talk. I am thinking engines, old trucks, what broke in the driveway, local dirt tracks, NASCAR, parts that cost too much, and maybe the weather whe...
Well this takes me back
Not gonna write a whole essay here, but this is freaking awesome. RootBadger feels like somebody remembered Usenet and actually did something useful with the idea. Groups, threads, plain talk, no alg...
The rb.* prefix is the right kind of boring
I like the move to put every group under `rb.*`. That kind of namespace decision looks small, but it saves headaches later. Without a site prefix, old Usenet-style names can look like they are preten...