1. Does this BBS software have it's own "frontdoor" for echos likeFidonet?
2. Does this BBS software have it's own mail tosser?
3. Is there anyone out there would like to talk me through, on the phone,setting one up, Step by Step?
I have some questions about this BBS software. I've been toying with the idea of a Telnet BBS.
Som here we go!
1. Does this BBS software have it's own "frontdoor" for echos like Fidonet?
2. Does this BBS software have it's own mail tosser?
3. Is there anyone out there would like to talk me through, on the phone, setting one up, Step by Step?
FWIW, I used to be a BBS owner in the 1990's. I ran TAG, frontdoor, Gecho under DOS. Needless to say, things have changed!
Thanks,
-Chuck Adkins K8CPA
Lincoln Park, Mi
... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.
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Charles P. Adkins wrote to All <=-
I have some questions about this BBS software. I've been toying
with the idea of a Telnet BBS.
Som here we go!
1. Does this BBS software have it's own "frontdoor" for echos
like Fidonet?
2. Does this BBS software have it's own mail tosser?
3. Is there anyone out there would like to talk me through, on
the phone, setting one up, Step by Step?
FWIW, I used to be a BBS owner in the 1990's. I ran TAG,
frontdoor, Gecho under DOS. Needless to say, things have changed!
I set up Synchronet before. I'm willing to help.
I thank you for the offer. But, honestly, I really don't have the patience to it or the time. and things have changed since the MS-DOS days.
=Chuck
... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly
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Charles P. Adkins wrote to The Millionaire <=-
I set up Synchronet before. I'm willing to help.
I thank you for the offer. But, honestly, I really don't have the patience to it or the time. and things have changed since the
MS-DOS days.
The Millionaire wrote to Charles P. Adkins <=-o
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I thank you for the offer. But, honestly, I really don't have the patience
it or the time. and things have changed since the MS-DOS days.
=Chuck
... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly
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But you asked for help.
Gamgee wrote to Charles P. Adkins <=-
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Charles P. Adkins wrote to The Millionaire <=-
I set up Synchronet before. I'm willing to help.
I thank you for the offer. But, honestly, I really don't have the patience to it or the time. and things have changed since the
MS-DOS days.
Then why did you ask if anyone would mind helping you set up a
BBS?
Charles P. Adkins wrote to Gamgee <=-
I set up Synchronet before. I'm willing to help.
I thank you for the offer. But, honestly, I really don't have the patience to it or the time. and things have changed since the
MS-DOS days.
Then why did you ask if anyone would mind helping you set up a
BBS?
I see where this is going. I don't like being lawyerd... see ya
bye.
1. Does this BBS software have it's own "frontdoor" for echos like Fidonet?
2. Does this BBS software have it's own mail tosser?
3. Is there anyone out there would like to talk me through, on the phone,
Grease wrote to Charles P. Adkins <=-
Re: Questions about Synchronet BBS software
By: Charles P. Adkins to All on Sat Feb 01 2020 12:59 pm
1. Does this BBS software have it's own "frontdoor" for echos like Fidonet?
2. Does this BBS software have it's own mail tosser?
3. Is there anyone out there would like to talk me through, on the phone,
As Meatloaf said, "It's got that and it has that, but there aint
no way that I'm gonna call you. Now don't feel bad, 'casue two
out of three ain't bad.
There are several places to look. 1 is the wiki's, and two is the
chat in synchronet, and three is this echo. Just go to https://synchro.net/docs/install.html or this one for linux: https://gist.github.com/phuckewe/897d8559f2f6c287d07a
That at least will get you up and running. It will let you send
and receive dovenet and let you get to the outside world. If you
can't connect, then here would be the next best place to go: http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip
This is a good starting point.
As Meatloaf said, "It's got that and it has that, but there aint no way that I'm gonna call you. Now don't feel bad, 'casue two out of three ain't bad.
He's already replied that it's too much trouble to bother setting
up. Asked for help and then bailed.
I guess it was just a troll.
yeah , meatloaf didnt say that
On 02-04-20 08:55, Grease wrote to Gamgee <=-
The only thing I could think of was that you *actually* had to set it
up. You just didn't click on .exe and presto, you have a BBS.
I remember setting up Maximus back in the day. That was much harder to
me. NOw you go down a checklist, copy/paste, and then search for the
extra stuff you want.
I remember setting up RA, BinkleyTerm and whatever tosser I was using at the time. It took me a couple of weeks to be confident enough to setup Fidonet and apply for a node number. I remember it was a steep learning curve at the time, but so rewarding, once I got it all going!
On 02-05-20 11:09, Grease wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I switched to RA after about a year. I used Front Door, though. Fun
times!
I was a PCBoard and Frontdoor (later Intermail) guy back in the
90's (running under DOS). Had an FTN/Fido mentor that helped me
with the details of batch files and such. Good times.
RA was my first choice, loved it. Not sure why I ended up with Bink, but I quite liked it too. Hydra bidirectional transfers were also a big time saver between 2 Binkley systems. :)
Tony Langdon wrote to Grease <=-
RA was my first choice, loved it. Not sure why I ended up with Bink,
but I quite liked it too. Hydra bidirectional transfers were also a
big time saver between 2 Binkley systems. :)
Grease wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Re: Re: Questions about Synchronet BBS software
By: Tony Langdon to Grease on Thu Feb 06 2020 02:32 pm
RA was my first choice, loved it. Not sure why I ended up with Bink, but I quite liked it too. Hydra bidirectional transfers were also a big time saver between 2 Binkley systems. :)
I ran what my friend was running at the time, because two heads
tring to fiure something out was better than one. I later tried
RA and liked it, and switched. Always ran FD.
Went to Synch on the comeback trail, because it had it "all" and
ran on linux.
On 02-06-20 10:05, Grease wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
I ran what my friend was running at the time, because two heads tring
to fiure something out was better than one. I later tried RA and liked
it, and switched. Always ran FD.
Went to Synch on the comeback trail, because it had it "all" and ran on linux.
On 02-06-20 06:41, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Although it was rougher around the edges than FD, I liked BSO better
than ArcMailAttach.
Mystic is used primarily as a FTN hub, rather than a user oriented
system.
Synchronet was the first system I tried when I came back to BBSing a fewyears
ago.
I've also since started a Mystic board, though this one gets the most attention. Mystic is used primarily as a FTN hub, rather than a useroriented
system.
On 02-07-20 21:39, Paul Quinn wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
Hi! Tony,
On 07 Feb 20 18:56, you wrote to Grease:
Mystic is used primarily as a FTN hub, rather than a user oriented
system.
I did the same with mine. It only does whatever mail a binkD task
throws at it.
On 02-07-20 15:33, Oli wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
The first thing I tried (on Linux) was MBSE, but didn't like it (I
don't think bbs users should be mapped to unix users).
In the 90s I used Squish and Maximus. First in DOS, but soon switched
to OS/2 which was great for BBS and Fidonet software (I still miss it
for FTN, but it doesn't run on the Pi and not very well on the VPS in QEMU).
Nowadays I'm not interested much in traditional BBSes anymore. Text and terminal is not the problem, more the kind of user interface and the arcane signup/login process. (I tried to compile Maximus on Linux
anyway. Didn't work and then I realized that there are other projects
that are more interesting than setting up my own BBS again).
I guess that is one reason I'm running a very similar setup than 25+
years ago. BinkD instead of BinkleyTerm, Crashmail instead of Squish
and GoldEd / GossipEd instead of GoldEd and all the other editors that were available on OS/2. The only thing that is new in my setup is JamNNTPd. I still have "testing Synchronet" on my todo list, the Javascript stuff looks interesting, native TLS support in binkit is
nice too.
Mystic is a pretty good BBS too as well.
07 Feb 20 18:56, you wrote to Grease:
years
The first thing I tried (on Linux) was MBSE, but didn't like it (I don't think bbs users should be mapped to unix users).
In the 90s I used Squish and Maximus. First in DOS, but soon switched to OS/2 which was great for BBS and Fidonet software (I still miss it for FTN, but it doesn't run on the Pi and not very well on the VPS in QEMU).
Nowadays I'm not interested much in traditional BBSes anymore. Text and terminal is not the problem, more the kind of user interface and the arcane signup/login process. (I tried to compile Maximus on Linux anyway. Didn't work and then I realized that there are other projects that are more interesting than setting up my own BBS again).
I guess that is one reason I'm running a very similar setup than 25+ years ago.
BinkD instead of BinkleyTerm, Crashmail instead of Squish and GoldEd / GossipEd
instead of GoldEd and all the other editors that were available on OS/2. The only thing that is new in my setup is JamNNTPd. I still have "testing Synchronet" on my todo list, the Javascript stuff looks interesting, native TLS
support in binkit is nice too.
oriented
But why? I never had any bigger problem with my uplinks (I was most active around the mid 90s). Everything worked 99% of the time perfectly until I tried to get mails from a Mystic hub. Worst FTN experience ever. Missing mails, downtimes (it seems to crash windows every now and then), slow binkp implementation, wrong timestamps, mangeld formatting that don't work well with other editors (including NNTP readers). It still (AFAIK) ignores Fidonet standards and the P4.
If it did work properly, it would be a nice all in one package though (no for me, I don't touch closed source software). It seems others had better experiences with it.
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