testing netmail.
testing netmail.
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Pweck's Retreat BBS (21:3/113)
The OP must have had something wrong; can someone tell me how to address
a netmail, say to Avon or YOU, so I can test MINE?
My terminal doesn't seem capable of pasting, so no link, but Mystic Guy (that's Avon's YouTube channel) has a video on setting up netmail.
If you're not averse to video, his channel is pretty useful for setting
up Mystic stuff in general.
That said, I'd suggest sending any netmail in a netmail-specific group.
If you're in an echomail message area like this one, the message will be echomail.
I just didn't wanna admit that I don't know the correct format for
sending one. I think its username@21:100/1 but... :P
* Origin: American Pi BBS (21:2/150)
I just didn't wanna admit that I don't know the correct format for sending one. I think its username@21:100/1 but... :P
I went and attempted to send a netmail to you.
I did recieve one, if your name have a second character of p... you'll be getting the reply shortly I hope. :P Thanks.
I did recieve one, if your name have a second character of p... you'l getting the reply shortly I hope. :P Thanks.
Yep, I'm April. I saw your message, and responded to it, so it looks as though your netmail is setup. Hooray!
When I left BBSing in like 1994 or so, it was just as the message networking was getting to be a thing; I never learned it! I was a part
When I left BBSing in like 1994 or so, it was just as the message networking was getting to be a thing; I never learned it! I was a par
I think it's interesting how that's one of the things that seems to have changed more in the interim.
E.g., network messaging is much more integrated into the various BBS softwares, no one in their right mind bothers with zone hours for when to transfer messages, and oftentimes there's a turnaround rate of less than 15 minutes for a message to propagate.
boxing. But... the phone lines really did make it harder to get messages around the whole network. Gosh, I remember (in the beginning) when it would take a day or MORE for a message to GET to the recipient.
I looked back on some old documents, and I mentioned paying some fee
to the local FIDOnet hub, because evidently that was a normal thing
at the time. Especiallybecause they doubtlessly had a lot of ongoing expenses with calling long distance to other hubs.
On the other hand, I actually met a solid portion of the people I talked to on local BBSs.
I've always missed that going away. Things like meetup sort of work for that, but it's different when you've been chatting generally for a while before meeting up, rather than having some shared activity.
BBSes for me, in high school, was this. My girlfriends were from the larger (omni-link) multi-node chat rooms. :P All us kids would meet up once a week at someones house... like jeez man, 30+. We'd goto live
music, we grew up together! Later, it turned into parties - as kids
do.... I went to all different schools proms & dances, and really met a wide group of kids thru the boards.
Back then (I will still in high scool) my board was run off of a PC in
my bedroom. I must have turned the volume knob up on my USR external modem for some reason & remember getting woken up by the sound of
dialing & a modem screaching. I think I was both annoyed & amused at
the same time.
BBSes for me, in high school, was this. My girlfriends were from the larger (omni-link) multi-node chat rooms. :P All us kids would meet u once a week at someones house... like jeez man, 30+. We'd goto live music, we grew up together! Later, it turned into parties - as kids do.... I went to all different schools proms & dances, and really met wide group of kids thru the boards.
Those were the best days and would love to discover how to get that
back, if even on a smaller scale. I try to call others BBS's at least once a week as I like the user experience as well as the SysOp side. I can see it being very easy to throw a BBS online to subscribe to
networks, and call it a day. I'd love to see online games and file areas evolve to modern software (and still retro cool stuff too ..) and for local bases to get some love. Had to chuckle when you mentioned the
live meet ups -- my first girlfriend was the sister of a SysOp friend of mine.
-tG
Adept wrote to paulie420 <=-
I looked back on some old documents, and I mentioned paying some fee to the local FIDOnet hub, because evidently that was a normal thing at the time. Especially because they doubtlessly had a lot of ongoing expenses with calling long distance to other hubs.
Warpslide wrote to Adept <=-
Back then (I will still in high scool) my board was run off of a PC in
my bedroom. I must have turned the volume knob up on my USR external modem for some reason & remember getting woken up by the sound of
dialing & a modem screaching. I think I was both annoyed & amused at
the same time.
paulie420 wrote to Adept <=-
Thats what BBSing WAS for me. Most all of my friendships were from the boards, as opposed to at my own high school.
On 07-17-20 08:07, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Warpslide <=-
I was living in a studio apartment in San Francisco when I started the BBS. This was one of those wonderful old city studios where the
walk-in closet was the size of a small office. I had a small desk in
the corner and ran the BBS there. I'd leave the modem speaker on low,
so I'd hear faint connect tones all through the night. It was
relaxing, in a way - and I'd check the logs in the morning and see all
of the calls from overseas during the night.
(This was 2400 baud, v.22bis - not the long, drawn out negotiation of a high-speed modem.)
My BBS started in my bedroom in a shared rented house. I had to put the modem on silent, because it would otherwise wake me up at night for the night owls and Fidonet mail. :)
My BBS started in my bedroom in a shared rented house. I had to put the modem on silent, because it would otherwise wake me up at night for
the night owls and Fidonet mail. :)
I started mine in my bedroom.. for the first week I thought, I'll
leave the monitot on, and M1... that lasted I think two nights, after
that I didn't care who called in the night, monitot off, M0 and much
more sleep... :)
On 07-19-20 10:11, Weatherman wrote to Vk3jed <=-
My BBS started in my bedroom when I was 12 or 13 years old living with
my Mom. I paid for a second phone line to be run into my bedroom and
the rest was history. Mine started on an Apple //c.
On 07-20-20 02:26, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I started mine in my bedroom.. for the first week I thought, I'll leave the monitot on, and M1... that lasted I think two nights, after that I didn't care who called in the night, monitot off, M0 and much more sleep... :)
Vk3jed wrote to Spectre <=-
LOL yeah, I was quickly in the same boat, though I still sometimes woke
up to the HDD in the throes of tossing the larest Fidonet packet. :D
Cost Recovery Programs. I've told the story before about my network
in the 90s. The NEC wanted the network to buy him a USR modem and
LOL yeah, I was quickly in the same boat, though I still sometimes woke up to the HDD in the throes of tossing the larest Fidonet packet.
My BBS started in my bedroom when I was 12 or 13 years old living with
my Mom. I paid for a second phone line to be run into my bedroom and the rest was history. Mine started on an Apple //c.
On 07-20-20 11:06, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Vk3jed wrote to Spectre <=-
LOL yeah, I was quickly in the same boat, though I still sometimes woke
up to the HDD in the throes of tossing the larest Fidonet packet. :D
Those old MFM drives made an awful racket. With Telegard in the 90s, I
had to toss packets to *.msg, and toss those into the message bases.
It made a hell of a noise at 2am, every night.
On 07-21-20 08:06, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
LOL yeah, I was quickly in the same boat, though I still sometimes woke up to the HDD in the throes of tossing the larest Fidonet packet.
Nod, system maintenance was the other one... by the time we were done,
it was taking near 30 mins to get through everything... don't recall
what it was doing now. But message base was a big part of it, with newsgroups going in, I had to expire messages in a 2 day period or explode.
As Avon says... hello world!
Peace!
As Avon says... hello world!
As Avon says... hello world!
Nuke wrote to All <=-
As Avon says... hello world!
Peace!
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Westwood BBS II (21:1/999)
Greetings.. just testing Multi-Mail and this bbs' mail door.
Hope it works.
Last 3 uploads had errors and no new messages.. :(
Greetings.. just testing Multi-Mail and this bbs' mail door.
Hope it works.
Last 3 uploads had errors and no new messages.. :(
Nuke wrote to All <=-
As Avon says... hello world!
Peace!
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Westwood BBS II (21:1/999)
... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.
___ MultiMail/Linux v0.49
--- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Communication Connection (21:1/192)
| Sysop: | sneaky |
|---|---|
| Location: | Ashburton,NZ |
| Users: | 31 |
| Nodes: | 8 (0 / 8) |
| Uptime: | 38:42:55 |
| Calls: | 2,096 |
| Files: | 11,142 |
| Messages: | 949,870 |