So, I've taken a copy. It took ages.

vagabond% du morty.tar
4174618 morty.tar

That's just shy of 4 gigs. Guess what I found?

vagabond% ls /mnt/data/spool
alt             humanities      news            sci             talk
comp            misc            rec             soc

WTF? Some kind of snapshot of Usenet from 2003? LOL.

I couldn't resist it. Shouldn't have bothered.

Script started on Fri Oct  3 12:42:42 2014
vagabond% ./gdmcore
Can't locate /usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20/mach .) at ./gdmcore line 13.
vagabond% exit

Script done on Fri Oct  3 12:42:46 2014

Prolly just take a copy and forget about it.

Well blow me. I haven't heard from Mortimer Hebblethwaite since he left MCC and disappeared back in the noughties. I feel quite nostalgic.

This must be the source for that bot Morty wrote. Naughty Morty.

Script started on Fri Oct  3 11:48:48 2014
vagabond% c ^H^H^[[Kcd /mnt
^[]0;vagabond::/mnt^Gvagabond% ls
bin conf    data    etc     log     run     sbin
vagabond% ls -l
total 14
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec 17  2003 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec 18  2003 conf
drwxr-xr-x  4 mortimer  staff  2048 Dec  9  2003 data
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec 17  2003 etc
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec  4  2003 log
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec  4  2003 run
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec  7  2003 sbin
vagabond% ls bin
BotArchal.pm        BotFlonk.pm     BotPhrase.pm    inews           gdmcore
BotCrime.pm BotFortune.pm   NewsStalker.pm  nhdr            sockpost
BotDaisy.pm BotMarkov.pm    botchan         polybot
vagabond% more bin/gd^Gvagabond% more ^H^H^H^H^H^[[5P^[[Kmore bin/gdm^Gcore
^[[?1h^[=#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
# This is the bot, bot, and furthermore, bot.
# *** Copyright (C) 1996 Mortimer Hebblethwaite, XenoPsyche Inc., England. ***

# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT CONTAINS ALGORITHMS WHICH ARE
# PROTECTED BY LAW THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN AND
# AUSTRALIA.
#
# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***

require '/usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars.pl';

use strict;
use Sys::Syslog;
use Getopt::Std;

my $DEFAULTEDITOR = "/usr/local/bin/emacs";
my $MYDIR = "/usr/local/news/bothaus";
my $DATADIR = "$MYDIR/data";
my $CONFDIR = "$MYDIR/conf";
my $BINDIR = "$MYDIR/bin";

my $INEWS = "/usr/local/bin/inews";
my $SM = "/usr/local/news/bin/sm";

# command line parameters

ESC[7m--More--(15%)ESC[27mESC[KESC[KESC[?1lESC>You have new mail in /var/mail/ip
vagabond% ESC[Kexit

Script done on Fri Oct  3 11:52:58 2014