On 01/27/17, garycrunk said the following...

I'm probably asking this in the wrong spot. But how do you do the Robot Postings? Is it a program for Mystic or do you have to do it manually?

They can be done manually, but it can also be automated using the mutil command. There is a stanza in the mutil.ini for posting text files into the message base.

Paul did an awesome video on this. If you go to YouTube, and search for
Mystic Guy. Here is a link to that video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3sJwueoDgc

He even talks about the bug in the current version of Mystic in regard to the MSGID issues. Great video. Give him a thumbs up for it. :)

Hope this helps.


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Gary

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On 01/27/17, bcw142 pondered and said...

On 01/27/17, garycrunk said the following...

I'm probably asking this in the wrong spot. But how do you do the Ro Postings? Is it a program for Mystic or do you have to do it manuall

It's part of mutil, so you can make a post.ini that does:
[General]

PostTextFiles = true

Just to mention if you are looking to post the same thing to multiple bases
at the same time it's best to call them with a separate ini file for each and put a few secs delay between each time mutil is run. This avoids the same message being posted across multiple echo areas with the same message id..

Some systems will see this and only allow one message in an echo to be
imported and reject the rest of the items posted in other echos.

Best, Paul

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to the MSGID issues. Great video. Give him a thumbs up for it. :)

Thanks my good man... I'm feeling a tad humble right now :)

Best, Paul

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On 01/28/17, Avon said the following...

to the MSGID issues. Great video. Give him a thumbs up for it. :)

Thanks my good man... I'm feeling a tad humble right now :)

I'm just speaking the truth. Those videos are great! I'm looking forward to some new ones soon... <hint hint> :)


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I did watch your Youtube Video.... Very interesting watching your Vids...
VERY informative... As always... Many Thanks...
Gary

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On 01/27/17, garycrunk pondered and said...

Many thanks...
I did watch your Youtube Video.... Very interesting watching your Vids... VERY informative... As always... Many Thanks...

Hi Gary... hey thanks for the kind words/feedback - really appreciate it...
I'm glad they are helpful to you :)

I'm always open to suggestions for future videos etc. also.

Best, Paul

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Hi Avon!

28 Jan 2017 10:08, from Avon -> bcw142:

Some systems will see this and only allow one message in an echo to be imported and reject the rest of the items posted in other echos.

MSGID needs to be unique.

Mystic sadly massively violates that requirement :(

Same is true for QWK replies :(((

CU, Ricsi

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On 03/05/17, Richard Menedetter said the following...

MSGID needs to be unique.

Mystic sadly massively violates that requirement :(

Same is true for QWK replies :(((

CU, Ricsi

True depending on how you use it. You can use mutil's 'robot' send if you
send one message at a time with a second or so between them it's fine, no
MSGID problems. If you use QWK to only send one message per rep packet the sames goes - it will work. QWK isn't very useful that way, the robot sends
are.

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On 03/05/17, Richard Menedetter said the following...

MSGID needs to be unique.

Mystic sadly massively violates that requirement :(

Same is true for QWK replies :(((

Indeed, and I have limited the usage of QWK at my board due to that.

Let's hope this can be fixed in the future. ;)

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Nighthawk wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-

Same is true for QWK replies :(((

Indeed, and I have limited the usage of QWK at my board due to
that.

The QWK one is a big issue. Fortunately, I'm the only QWK user on my Mystic board, and I do the bulk of my message posting from SBBS.


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On 03/08/17, Vk3jed said the following...

The QWK one is a big issue. Fortunately, I'm the only QWK user on my Mystic board, and I do the bulk of my message posting from SBBS.

Same here. I read all my Fidonet echoes from a friend's board that runs ELEBBS, so no big deal, and now I created this system to read the fsxnet messages.

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Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

The QWK one is a big issue. Fortunately, I'm the only QWK user on my Mystic board, and I do the bulk of my message posting from SBBS.

Same here. I read all my Fidonet echoes from a friend's board that runs ELEBBS, so no big deal, and now I created this system to read the fsxnet messages.

Yeah, I just like the way I have SBBS setup, and use its QWK support. I need to get my head around Mystic groups and work out how to neatly auto create echoes into the right groups. :)


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On 03/09/17, Vk3jed said the following...

Yeah, I just like the way I have SBBS setup, and use its QWK support. I need to get my head around Mystic groups and work out how to neatly auto create echoes into the right groups. :)

Create a Mystic system to work as a fsxnet point from your system, it
will be fun :)

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Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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On 03/09/17, Vk3jed said the following...

Yeah, I just like the way I have SBBS setup, and use its QWK support. I need to get my head around Mystic groups and work out how to neatly auto create echoes into the right groups. :)

Create a Mystic system to work as a fsxnet point from your system,
it will be fun :)

I already have a Mystic system, it is technically a Fidonet point, though I don't carry any Fido echoes. However, you could send me a Fido netmail to the point. :) On FSXnet, the Mystic system is a full node.


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Vk3jed wrote to Nighthawk <=-

Yeah, I just like the way I have SBBS setup, and use its QWK support. I need to get my head around Mystic groups and work out how to neatly auto create echoes into the right groups. :)

Create a Mystic system to work as a fsxnet point from your system,
it will be fun :)

I already have a Mystic system, it is technically a Fidonet point,
though I don't carry any Fido echoes. However, you could send me a
Fido netmail to the point. :) On FSXnet, the Mystic system is a full node.

I did the same here. As I was having lots of issues with QWK packages and
Multimail, I set up a Mystic system into my Macbook to work as a fsxnet point.
I managed to fix the issue, but will remain with the point from now on. It's
fun. :)



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Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I did the same here. As I was having lots of issues with QWK
packages and Multimail, I set up a Mystic system into my Macbook to
work as a fsxnet point.
I managed to fix the issue, but will remain with the point
from now on. It's fun. :)

My Mystic system has evolved more to become a hub, actually providing services is almost secondary to mobing mail and files. SBBS is my main point for actually reading echomai (as well as being a QWK hub for a couple of nets). I haven't bothered with a dedicated point, mainly because I have multiple machines I could read mail on. QWK is a much better solution for my needs, and that works well on SBBS.


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Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I did the same here. As I was having lots of issues with QWK
packages and Multimail, I set up a Mystic system into my Macbook to
work as a fsxnet point.
I managed to fix the issue, but will remain with the point
from now on. It's fun. :)

I prefer the Synchronet system for managing mail, Mystic for managing files. :)


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On 03/23/17, Vk3jed said the following...

I prefer the Synchronet system for managing mail, Mystic for managing files. :)

Well, I don't know Synchronet that much, but at least this latest Alpha
for Mystic is quite buggy into the QWK part... :(

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Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I prefer the Synchronet system for managing mail, Mystic for managing files. :)

Well, I don't know Synchronet that much, but at least this latest Alpha for Mystic is quite buggy into the QWK part... :(

That QWK issue is another reason I do all my messaging from Synchronet. Synchronet's QWK support is very good and has no known issues that I'm aware
f.


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Re: Re: How do you do Robots???
By: Nighthawk to Vk3jed on Wed Apr 05 2017 11:08 pm

I prefer the Synchronet system for managing mail, Mystic for
managing files. :)

Well, I don't know Synchronet that much, but at least this latest Alpha for Mystic is quite buggy into the QWK part... :(

Personally, I prefer mystic for both... but Mystic does have a lot to be added to the tosser, mainly a means to lock coordinator echos away from non coordinator nodes. Synchronet has an ODD way of doing this but you have to keep editing your fidonet.na file to move them to a ficoord.na file... it's complicated where theoretcally if mystic applied the same security level logic to nodes with file/mail echos it would be one of the most robust hub softwares out there (once the timestamp bug and re-wrap issues are corrected.)

Allen

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Re: Re: How do you do Robots???
By: Vk3jed to Nighthawk on Thu Apr 06 2017 01:41 pm

That QWK issue is another reason I do all my messaging from Synchronet. Synchronet's QWK support is very good and has no known issues that I'm aware f.

Technically Mystic only has one issue and that's the clock speed issue on the QWK base.

Allen

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Hawke wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Technically Mystic only has one issue and that's the clock speed issue
on the QWK base.

Think you mean duplicate MGSID, because the seconds are rounded down, which is actually the same issue as mutil has. However, it's much easier to real with mutil, because you can script individual postings, whereas with QWK, you have to write, upload, write, upload individually, which is a pain!


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