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https://bravewords.com/home doesn’t seem to note these any more.
KnuckleTracks [ 1 ] Earlier archives note previous editions.

KnuckleTracks and Blood Tracks were CD samplers of (usually) heavy metal music from various bands. They came with the (physical) magazine Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles.

I had lots of exposure of hard rock and heavy metal before my collecting Knuckletracks, but this was my grand induction into the world of Heavy Metal and what I would later learn is called Goth or Gothic Metal.

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Footnotes

^ 1 Earlier archives note previous editions.

Not to be mistaken for Thunderbirds – (1965 show)

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Linux email clients >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

A multi-OS email client.

POP3, IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, LDAP, SSL/TLS, OpenPGP, S/MIME, filters, multiple identities, bayesian spam filters.

Excellent, but awfully slow.



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https://www.karenware.com/powertools/karens-replicator-backup-utility

A straightforward mirroring tool, with scheduling, exclusion and other useful features.

Instead of fucking around with some sort of special utility, Karen’s Replicator just does the job. I believe this was my first introduction to her software.

Abandoned:



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https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/

A P2P daemon, which requires a network protocol such as openFT or gnutella. Any number of frontends are also recommended.

So far, giFT has proved to do what it is made for. Most problems will appear to me to be the fault of the frontend, but there may well need to be certain features inserted into either the openFT protocol, the giFT daemon or the frontend.. it’s difficult to say.

  • The software hasn’t had an update since 07 May 2005!

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