• Resistance is futile...

    From Spectre@21:3/101 to vorlon on Sunday, July 19, 2020 19:33:00
    The ones on the left of that photo are what I'm looking for.

    Yup those baby poo beige yellow things... good job I have two sets eh... you'll just have to let me know where to send them.... spectre@tlp.zapto.org

    Spec


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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Spectre on Friday, July 24, 2020 14:30:56

    Hello Spectre!

    19 Jul 20 19:33, you wrote to me:

    The ones on the left of that photo are what I'm looking for.

    Yup those baby poo beige yellow things... good job I have two sets
    eh... you'll just have to let me know where to send them....

    Are you sure with you only having two sets?

    Email sent!

    Vorlon


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vorlon on Saturday, July 25, 2020 04:01:00
    Are you sure with you only having two sets?

    I have nothing to use them in. I pulled them out ooooh near 30 years ago, they've been hiding in the bits box ever since. On a II with SCSI it was generally safer to pull them all out and use an external terminator. So you could rearrange your chain anyway you wanted.

    I've eyeballed your email too, I expect to get them out the door monday at this stage.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vorlon on Saturday, July 25, 2020 04:25:00
    You know back in the day we had a special hate for Amiga's :) They were obviously a lot newer and far more capable than your Apple II, they were competition for things like SCSI drives. And if you had a mac you guys wanted to run off with the 68k series processors and accelerators. Chuckle.

    To top it off we had evangelism.. Apple II Forever... :)

    Spec


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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Spectre on Saturday, July 25, 2020 16:04:36

    Hello Spectre!

    25 Jul 20 04:01, you wrote to me:

    Are you sure with you only having two sets?

    I have nothing to use them in. I pulled them out ooooh near 30 years
    ago, they've been hiding in the bits box ever since. On a II with
    SCSI it was generally safer to pull them all out and use an external terminator. So you could rearrange your chain anyway you wanted.

    I went looking my self, but when I moved three years a go dad threw out a heap of stuff without me knowing.... I
    lost a few 50pin scsi drives, a standard phone that I used for testing lines, cables and things that will never
    be made again. #0(

    I've eyeballed your email too, I expect to get them out the door
    monday at this stage.

    NP




    Vorlon


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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Spectre on Saturday, July 25, 2020 16:06:36

    Hello Spectre!

    25 Jul 20 04:25, you wrote to me:

    You know back in the day we had a special hate for Amiga's :) They
    were obviously a lot newer and far more capable than your Apple II,
    they were competition for things like SCSI drives. And if you had a
    mac you guys wanted to run off with the 68k series processors and accelerators. Chuckle.

    The Amiga 2000 was what I upgraded to after a C64, after seeing a demo of a Amiga 500.

    The 2000 could do everything a 500 could, but like a PC had expansion busses and was in a desktop case.
    In the end it was upgarded and expanded a huge amount. Wishing I had of kept it, but I could see the writing on
    the wall before C= went up in smoke.. #-(

    To top it off we had evangelism.. Apple II Forever... :)

    I did a silly thing back in the day and got rid of a lot of my gear. @-(

    Now they go for huge amounts of money.


    Vorlon


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vorlon on Saturday, July 25, 2020 11:10:00
    Hey,
    Out of interest what did you need to do to register your domain name? Or does being hammy come with DNS? :)

    Spec


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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Spectre on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 12:04:10

    Hello Spectre!

    25 Jul 20 11:10, you wrote to me:

    Out of interest what did you need to do to register your domain name? Or does being hammy come with DNS? :)

    Forking out the $$ to register it! One the pluss side I don't pay hosting fee's as it's done on my own server and I
    also play in the hosting area! %-)



    Vorlon


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vorlon on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 14:41:00
    Forking out the $$ to register it! One the pluss side I don't pay

    Where did you register, when I poke about Aus I only seem to find, netregistry and www.domainregistration.com.au Both of whom seem to be more interested in flogging a hosted site not just a name, and seem to be hiddeously expensive.

    Spec


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Spectre on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 15:24:52
    Forking out the $$ to register it! One the pluss side I don't
    pay

    Where did you register, when I poke about Aus I only seem to find, netregistry and www.domainregistration.com.au Both of whom seem to
    be more interested in flogging a hosted site not just a name, and
    seem to be hiddeously expensive.

    Back in the long distant past of 2005, I used Godaddy. I wasn't doing
    hosting for clients then.

    Registering the domain is normally done through a reseller, and there are
    heaps of them. VentraIP, Superdomains just to name two.

    If you want something more then it depends on how much you want to do it
    your self. If you'd like to shoot me a email with what you want to do,
    I'll get you some prices.






    Sp> Spec





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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 19:04:38
    Forking out the $$ to register it! One the pluss side I don't pay
    Where did you register, when I poke about Aus I only seem to find,

    Just to jump in, despite never having so much as been to Australia, I've had
    a good experience with NameCheap (namecheap.com). So far as I can tell, they register .au domains, and there's a drop down for changing the currency that you're paying in. Since it includes Australian Dollars, I'm hopeful that it'd work for you, too.

    But I assume there are plenty of fine options. Also plenty of terrible
    options, like GoDaddy, too, but eh.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Thursday, July 30, 2020 13:22:00
    Just to jump in, despite never having so much as been to Australia, I've

    That a long jump or a high jump? :)

    had a good experience with NameCheap (namecheap.com).

    Thanks for the effort, I've been finding a dearth of useful information trolling through the usual sources. Only businesses wanting to flog hosting which at this point I'm not looking at.

    Spec


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Thursday, July 30, 2020 07:36:56
    Just to jump in, despite never having so much as been to Australia, I
    That a long jump or a high jump? :)

    What kind do you do in a bouncy castle?

    trolling through the usual sources. Only businesses wanting to flog hosting which at this point I'm not looking at.

    Ugh, yeah. Constant upselling was one of the main reasons why I detested GoDaddy back when I used it. Like, "I would like to buy a product through
    you" should not be met with, "...would you like to click through multiple
    pages of additional offers before buying it? Well, you _will_!"

    Especially when GoDaddy hosting is (or at least was. They earned their reputation.) expensive while not being particularly good. E.g., back when I signed up it cost extra for each domain you used.

    But good luck, regardless. I'm sure you'll find something, and if they're annoying, hopefully you'll find somewhere else to transfer to, hopefully with minimal hassle (GoDaddy also made that as hard as they could get away with).

    But NameCheap is solid, or at least has been for me.

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  • From apam@21:1/101 to Adept on Thursday, July 30, 2020 20:45:49
    Ugh, yeah. Constant upselling was one of the main reasons why I detested GoDaddy back when I used it. Like, "I would like to buy a product through you" should not be met with, "...would you like to click through multiple pages of additional offers before buying it? Well, you _will_!"

    Yeah, but don't they all do that? I use crazydomains and everytime I register a
    domain you have to click through all the shit they want you to buy. I just want
    a domain for my vps... eh I guess they got to make money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:1/101 to apam on Thursday, July 30, 2020 20:48:27
    money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    I guess mystic does still chop long lines off. Just more than 79 chars...

    Oh well.

    Andrew

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  • From Andre@21:3/117 to Adept on Thursday, July 30, 2020 03:59:42
    On 30 Jul 2020, Adept said the following...


    But NameCheap is solid, or at least has been for me.

    Yup. All the people I know that register/manage large amonts of domains do it with NameCheap.


    - Andre

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Thursday, July 30, 2020 18:49:00
    Just to jump in, despite never having so much as been to

    That a long jump or a high jump? :)

    What kind do you do in a bouncy castle?

    That'd be a bouncy jump of course....

    Spec


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  • From Al@21:4/106 to apam on Thursday, July 30, 2020 05:06:38
    Hello apam,

    money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    I guess mystic does still chop long lines off. Just more than 79
    chars...

    I haven't seen that in recent versions of Mystic. I wonder if it could have been caused by something else?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Apam@21:1/183 to Al on Thursday, July 30, 2020 22:20:00
    On Thu Jul 30 05:06:00 2020, Al wrote to apam <=-

    Hello apam,

    money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    I guess mystic does still chop long lines off. Just more than 79 chars...

    I haven't seen that in recent versions of Mystic. I wonder if it could have been caused by something else?

    Have you uploaded a QWK file with a message with a long paragraph on one line?

    I even checked the REP file to make sure, it was definitley mystic that chopped
    it off.

    Andrew

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Apam on Thursday, July 30, 2020 09:58:09
    Hello Apam,

    I haven't seen that in recent versions of Mystic. I wonder if it
    could have been caused by something else?

    Have you uploaded a QWK file with a message with a long paragraph on
    one line?

    I'm not sure I can use long lines in QWK. The replies always seem to be wrapped up or maybe my editor did that.

    I even checked the REP file to make sure, it was definitley mystic
    that chopped it off.

    I wonder if the QWK system Mystic uses is truncating long lines in QWK files the same way mutil was doing for FTN messages truncating long lines somewhere around 256 characters?

    That would be my best guess ATM.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Andre on Thursday, July 30, 2020 20:51:51
    Yup. All the people I know that register/manage large amonts of domains
    do it with NameCheap.

    Neat! I don't know all that many people who have quite the domain habit I do (including domains for my parents and occasionally friends), but I also like the ease at which I've been able to edit various DNS aspects.

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  • From Andre@21:3/117 to Adept on Thursday, July 30, 2020 16:00:06
    On 30 Jul 2020, Adept said the following...

    Neat! I don't know all that many people who have quite the domain habit
    I do (including domains for my parents and occasionally friends), but I also like the ease at which I've been able to edit various DNS aspects.

    I know a couple people like that. But then there's my old teams of pentesters that have hundreds of phishing domains.

    Andre

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to apam on Thursday, July 30, 2020 18:55:04
    On 30 Jul 2020, apam said the following...

    money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    I guess mystic does still chop long lines off. Just more than 79 chars...

    I wonder if this is why DOVE-Net on Mystic looks so weird sometimes.

    Sometimes a message will just end abruptly or a sentence just gets cut off before the next paragraph starts. I get a FTN feed of DOVE-Net from Deon for my Telegard board and it always looks perfect from that feed.

    Jay

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to apam on Thursday, July 30, 2020 23:28:09
    Ugh, yeah. Constant upselling was one of the main reasons why I deteste
    Yeah, but don't they all do that? I use crazydomains and everytime I

    Namecheap doesn't. I just went there, started typing random letters, added a .com, added it to cart, went to the cart, saw that it had a couple of sliders -- one for premium DNS or something, and one a free privacy thing.

    But no additional clicks -- there wasn't some click through to ask me if I wanted to buy x other service.

    I assume there are other registration sites that are also decent, but I don't have experience with them.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to apam on Friday, July 31, 2020 12:11:00
    Yeah, but don't they all do that? I use crazydomains and everytime I register a domain you have to click through all the shit they want you to buy. I just want a domain for my vps... eh I guess they got to make money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    I think you got truncated.....

    Spec


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Spectre on Saturday, August 01, 2020 00:04:01
    Thanks for the effort, I've been finding a dearth of useful
    information trolling through the usual sources. Only businesses
    wanting to flog hosting which at this point I'm not looking at.

    Hey Spec,

    you should have seen my email come in using the business address.

    I gave you a heap of options. #-)





    \/orlon
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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to apam on Saturday, August 01, 2020 00:08:28
    Yeah, but don't they all do that? I use crazydomains and everytime
    I register a domain you have to click through all the shit they
    want you to buy. I just want a domain for my vps... eh I guess they
    got to make money somehow. One addition I do buy these d

    Thats the advantage of going through a wholesaler.. None of that crap.

    Regsitering is as simple as providing the requested information (ie: ABN
    if a .com.au) and the primary and secondary dns servers.

    Job done, and the domain will be normally be up a visable in a few hours.




    \/orlon
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Friday, July 31, 2020 09:56:00
    Adept wrote to apam <=-

    Namecheap doesn't. I just went there, started typing random letters,
    added a .com, added it to cart, went to the cart, saw that it had a
    couple of sliders -- one for premium DNS or something, and one a free privacy thing.

    They're pretty low-key. I had 2 domains registered with them, but DNS
    elsewhere (including realitycheckbbs.org) and was able to move DNS to
    namecheap and replicate the entries easily.

    The rest of my domains land on Dreamhost and they have their own DNS.



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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, July 31, 2020 22:37:48
    They're pretty low-key. I had 2 domains registered with them, but DNS
    elsewhere (including realitycheckbbs.org) and was able to move DNS to
    namecheap and replicate the entries easily.
    The rest of my domains land on Dreamhost and they have their own DNS.

    It seems as though your experience is pretty similar to mine -- I had set pretty well all of my domains to be using e.g., ns1.dreamhost.com for the
    name server.

    But I've been slowly moving away from Dreamhost after they stopped hosting e-mail. So, hosting e-mail (with MxRoute) required setting various DNS
    records, and it was easy enough to do it on NameCheap.

    And eventually I'll get my web stuff off of Dreamhost (currently in favor of vultr.com, where I run my BBS through), as I've enjoyed having root access, even if I'm never quite convinced that I'll do security correctly.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to vorlon on Saturday, August 01, 2020 13:35:00
    you should have seen my email come in using the business address.

    Hey there, sure did. I need to perform a seance to the big man and confirm which way the go... I'm leaning towards refuge.xxx <-- no pron intended, but the houseofrefuge.xxx is probably more likely, even though its a much bigger mouthful.

    Spec


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Saturday, August 01, 2020 09:06:00
    Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    But I've been slowly moving away from Dreamhost after they stopped
    hosting e-mail. So, hosting e-mail (with MxRoute) required setting
    various DNS records, and it was easy enough to do it on NameCheap.

    I must be grandfathered in. They host a handful of domain's email,
    but there is the "toss everything over to G suite" option.

    And eventually I'll get my web stuff off of Dreamhost (currently in
    favor of vultr.com, where I run my BBS through), as I've enjoyed having root access, even if I'm never quite convinced that I'll do security correctly.

    I got them to honor their new user pricing for me, so I'm locked in
    at $4.95/month for the next 2 years. I figure it's worth skipping
    the hassle of moving 3 wordpress databases over to a new host.

    The next move I do will probably be to replace Wordpress on my main
    site with a static photoblog and move it and the BBS over to a VPS.
    I'm using nginx at work a lot, and find it a lot simpler than Apache.
    Or, at least more intuitive to me.






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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, August 01, 2020 18:47:30
    I must be grandfathered in. They host a handful of domain's email,
    but there is the "toss everything over to G suite" option.

    Yeah, they do offer that. I guess I forget what exactly they got rid of. It might have just been catch-all accounts, which was effectively the same thing for me.

    It's problematic when making a new e-mail address for every site. So,
    suddenly, "switch to a different provider", even if it took days of work, was
    a lesser time commitment.

    I got them to honor their new user pricing for me, so I'm locked in

    Nice!

    I'm definitely paying more than you, though I get a VPS out of the bargain. I'll probably switch over once I figure out how to make MediaWiki sites work and how to transfer data between servers.

    I'm using nginx at work a lot, and find it a lot simpler than Apache.
    Or, at least more intuitive to me.

    I used Apache at first when I was restarting my BBS, then quickly switched to nginx, and definitely prefer it. But don't have _near_ enough knowledge about either to state any objective technical reasons. It'd be interesting to hear
    if people have strong opinions on the subject.

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  • From Immortal@21:1/185 to Spectre on Saturday, August 01, 2020 16:17:30
    On 28 Jul 2020, Spectre said the following...

    Forking out the $$ to register it! One the pluss side I don't pay

    Where did you register, when I poke about Aus I only seem to find, netregistry and www.domainregistration.com.au Both of whom seem to be more interested in flogging a hosted site not just a name, and seem to
    be hiddeously expensive.

    Can you not use any registrar, why limit to aus? Use namesilo.com or godaddy.com and you can get a .com for around $10 a year.

    Immortal

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Immortal on Sunday, August 02, 2020 12:29:00
    Can you not use any registrar, why limit to aus? Use namesilo.com
    or godaddy.com and you can get a .com for around $10 a year.

    Well you're right, I could use any registrar.... but there is some parochial action at work. There's got to be something localish that can manage the same. I never hear good things about godaddy, but I've never actually had to deal with them. In fact I've only ever used dynamic myself, and this is really for someone else, so local... is better I feel for their purposes.

    Spec


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Spectre on Sunday, August 02, 2020 19:14:16
    you should have seen my email come in using the business
    address.

    Hey there, sure did. I need to perform a seance to the big man and confirm which way the go... I'm leaning towards refuge.xxx <-- no
    pron intended, but the houseofrefuge.xxx is probably more likely,
    even though its a much bigger mouthful.

    #-) Those are short domain names. I've got a clients domain that's 20 characters long. #0(




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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to vorlon on Sunday, August 02, 2020 22:16:54
    #-) Those are short domain names. I've got a clients domain that's 20 characters long. #0(

    It does seem easier to find short domains when off the beaten path for the
    TLD.

    E.g., I own april.tech. To have owned april.com, I probably would've had to register it back in 1995.

    On the negative side, I've had _serious_ issues with attempting to send e-mail from a .rocks domain that just didn't happen with a .com domain, because there's a variety of e-mail filters that tag those TLDs as being way more likely to be spam.

    I do wonder how TLDs like .co.uk, or other well-established country codes are on that spectrum of things.

    Though I suppose it's one of those things where my perception of its crowdedness is entirely dependent on my ability to get the domain I was
    looking for.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Immortal on Monday, August 03, 2020 20:18:00
    On 08-01-20 16:17, Immortal wrote to Spectre <=-

    Can you not use any registrar, why limit to aus? Use namesilo.com or godaddy.com and you can get a .com for around $10 a year.

    cheapdomains and crazydomains also sell .au


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Monday, August 03, 2020 20:20:00
    On 08-02-20 12:29, Spectre wrote to Immortal <=-

    Can you not use any registrar, why limit to aus? Use namesilo.com
    or godaddy.com and you can get a .com for around $10 a year.

    Well you're right, I could use any registrar.... but there is some parochial action at work. There's got to be something localish that
    can manage the same. I never hear good things about godaddy, but I've never actually had to deal with them. In fact I've only ever used
    dynamic myself, and this is really for someone else, so local... is
    better I feel for their purposes.

    I've had no problems with godaddy for domains, but their web hosting sucks, performance wise. I've got a number of domains registered and hosted on godaddy's servers (for no additional fee). Some are delegated to other DNS servers too. I've also got a domain registered at cheapdomains, but hosted elsewhere.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 08:53:00
    I've had no problems with godaddy for domains, but their web hosting

    Ahhh ok, all I really need is the domain, and host the www, mail at our end...

    Spec


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Adept on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 10:44:23
    #-) Those are short domain names. I've got a clients domain
    that's 20 characters long. #0(

    It does seem easier to find short domains when off the beaten path
    for the TLD.

    That client has two domains, one short one for emails and the long one
    for the website, as that's what people know them as.

    Ad> E.g., I own april.tech. To have owned april.com, I probably
    would've had to register it back in 1995.


    Creation Date: 1997-03-16T05:00:00Z


    On the negative side, I've had _serious_ issues with attempting to
    send e-mail from a .rocks domain that just didn't happen with a
    .com domain, because there's a variety of e-mail filters that tag
    those TLDs as being way more likely to be spam.

    Spammers and scammers jump on new .tld rather quickly thinking that the
    filter wont stop the spam.



    Though I suppose it's one of those things where my perception of
    its crowdedness is entirely dependent on my ability to get the
    domain I was looking for.
    You need to think of a easy to use word, or one of the requirements here
    in Australia, is it needs to be near what the entity is known as.





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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to vorlon on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 03:17:38
    Spammers and scammers jump on new .tld rather quickly thinking that the filter wont stop the spam.

    I assume that the filter people jump on new TLDs and assume that they're sending spam, too.

    But, yeah, spammers ruin a lot of things.

    That said, it seems like I'm getting significantly less spam than I used to.

    Maybe that's just my perception, but it seems to be less of a problem. Though
    I guess people also just don't used e-mail all that much at this point,
    either.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Spectre on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 20:58:00
    On 08-04-20 08:53, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I've had no problems with godaddy for domains, but their web hosting

    Ahhh ok, all I really need is the domain, and host the www, mail at our end...

    Yeah, that's all I use Godaddy for - hosting DNS. Services are located mostly on servers I'm running. :) And there's no reason you can't run DNS itself on your own servers if you want to, and use GoDaddy just for the registration.


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Adept on Wednesday, August 05, 2020 10:37:28
    Spammers and scammers jump on new .tld rather quickly thinking
    that the filters wont stop the spam.

    I assume that the filter people jump on new TLDs and assume that
    they're sending spam, too.

    When the .xyz tld came online, the amount of spam out of that saw a
    massive uptake. The same with some of the recent tld's.

    .online saw a huge incresse in seo spam, with most of it comming out of
    India. %-(


    But, yeah, spammers ruin a lot of things.

    That said, it seems like I'm getting significantly less spam than I
    used to.

    The filters learn over time, and some are better than others.

    I've tried a good range of them over the years, from the free products to
    the paid type.


    Maybe that's just my perception, but it seems to be less of a
    problem. Though I guess people also just don't used e-mail all that
    much at this point, either.

    The amount of emails that I've seen haven't changed. There are days when
    they drop down really low though.




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