Are there any Easter eggs or will ever be in Synchronet BBS?

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Re: Easter Eggs
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Jun 11 2022 10:06 am

Are there any Easter eggs or will ever be in Synchronet BBS?

Not really. The closest thing to an "Easter egg" would be undocumented features that were mainly intended to harass users such as the 'Y' restiction (forced a yes/no prompt after every user command), the 'O' (r0dent-write) restiction, and the Elite-text Ctrl-A code for users with elite-status (they could include text in messages that only other elite users could see). These were "features" that my co-sysop, Ille Homine Albe, and I used to amuse each other at some poor users' expense. Those were fun times.
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Re: Easter Eggs
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Jun 11 2022 10:06 am

Not really. The closest thing to an "Easter egg" would be undocumented features that were mainly intended to harass users such as the 'Y' restiction (forced a yes/no prompt after every user command), the 'O' (r0dent-write) restiction, and the Elite-text Ctrl-A code for users with elite-status (they could include text in messages that only other elite users could see). These were "features" that my co-sysop, Ille Homine Albe, and I used to amuse each other at some poor users' expense. Those were fun times.
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This Is Spinal Tap quote #9:
David St. Hubbins: I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel. Norco, CA WX: 86.2°F, 43.0% humidity, 5 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

Ah yes. The olden days when life was fun to enjoy. :-)

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Re: Easter Eggs
By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Sat Jun 11 2022 12:02 pm

Are there any Easter eggs or will ever be in Synchronet BBS?

Not really. The closest thing to an "Easter egg" would be undocumented features that were mainly intended to harass users such as the 'Y' restict

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Are there any Easter eggs or will ever be in Synchronet BBS?

Not really. The closest thing to an "Easter egg" would be undocumented features that were mainly intended to harass users such as the 'Y'

Personally, I think the "ping" function is a huge Easter egg. It's written into the C source and not documented anywhere (that I've seen). There is no sysop control of it (turn on or off, formatting or the message etc) and most Synchronet sysops seem to be blissfully unaware of it's existence (taking as evidence the dearth of PING flags in the various FTN nodelists for SBBS systems).

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Re: Easter Eggs
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Jun 11 2022 03:10 pm

Do you remember Doorway? That was a cool program.

Of course.
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