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    From Spectre@21:3/101 to Ogg on Friday, May 15, 2020 04:54:00
    One of my other theories was trying to get my message areas
    into a news server and provide a www frontend onto the nntp
    server. I have

    End Of The Line BBS (EOL) does exactly that. Just set up your news
    reader to point to it. It's "free" to subscribe and read-only.

    Maybe EOL can gate something for you.

    Trouble is I wanted to put my local message bases out there too, means I need to manage the gateway locally. So gateway has come to naught.

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    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Friday, May 15, 2020 12:43:00
    The ones I was on had a badge on each member page, where you could
    choose to go to the next site in the ring, previous site or jump
    to a random site in the ring.

    Yeah I remember that bit.. I don't know if the pages were hard linked, or it went back to the webring site to find the next one. I have a thought stuck in my head if you went via the webring site, not a child site, you lost some realestate at the top to the same setup, previous, next and random pages. Which



























































































































































































































































    then popped up below.

    If you found it via the child site then you lost the pages header and it was just the sites links to the before or next.... Not sure how you'd drive it to be honest. Probably more databasing for the site names and links I s'pose..

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    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to The Godfather on Saturday, May 16, 2020 06:44:00
    Haha! It's totally fine, I thought you were being funny. It's totally cool, I've had others refer to me as "The." Doug works fine too. It's totally fine.

    The Doug, Dougfather... :)

    Spec

    * It's base is prefamulated amulite, with a malleable logrythmic case
    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]

    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to Al on Friday, May 22, 2020 21:18:28
    Al wrote to Captain Obvious <=-

    What we need (I think) is something like nntp that supports what we
    need support for in the networks. Netmail and echomail and support for
    a To: name. Aside from those details nntp would work well for us.
    Actually nntp may support
    that or be able to support that with a little work.

    JAMNNTPD gives you that functionality. All you need to do is
    install it.

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    __,--=====-.__ Regards from Flavio Bessa
    _________,--'_,--'/_-__-___`--._ Sysop - Saturn's Orbit BBS
    {======>________,._.-------------' Fidonet 4:801/188
    ``---._____/ E-Mail fcbessa@gmail.com


    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A41 2018/12/27 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (21:1/146)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to Al on Friday, May 22, 2020 21:18:28
    Al wrote to alterego <=-

    Does that work for addressing a message To: someone in echomail also?

    Yes, all you have to do is to put the TO: on the first line.
    JAMNNTPD does the rest.

    I love seeing messages addressed to Fidonet.Dingle.Dangle.

    That doesn't happen with JAMNNTPD.

    Yep, FTN/BINKP/IFCICO is great for any of us here abouts I'd say but
    I'd really
    like to see a service like nntp but directly supporting what we are
    doing instead of trying to kludge things together.

    Give JAMNNTPD a try. I can create an account for you in my system if you want.

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    __,--=====-.__ Regards from Flavio Bessa
    _________,--'_,--'/_-__-___`--._ Sysop - Saturn's Orbit BBS
    {======>________,._.-------------' Fidonet 4:801/188
    ``---._____/ E-Mail fcbessa@gmail.com


    ... Internal Error: The system has been taken over by sheep at line 19960
    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A41 2018/12/27 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (21:1/146)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to Ogg on Friday, May 22, 2020 21:18:28
    Ogg wrote to Al <=-

    JamNNTP is almost a perfect echomail experience for people who can be trained to use Thunderbird or Sylpheed or similar.

    Couldn't agree more. Sylpheed is the best.

    The From and To names are maintained nicely so that you can see who the reply is meant for before you even open up the message. Threading
    works really nicely in TB.

    Yes.


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    __,--=====-.__ Regards from Flavio Bessa
    _________,--'_,--'/_-__-___`--._ Sysop - Saturn's Orbit BBS
    {======>________,._.-------------' Fidonet 4:801/188
    ``---._____/ E-Mail fcbessa@gmail.com


    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A41 2018/12/27 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (21:1/146)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to Deon George on Friday, May 22, 2020 21:18:28
    Deon George wrote to Alterego <=-

    Let see if this works - posted with Unison to JamNNTPD!

    If it is too me, then JamNNTP also changes the "to" for echomail.

    --- Unison/2.2
    * Origin: Alterant MailHub (21:3/100)

    Worked like a charm!



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    __,--=====-.__ Regards from Flavio Bessa
    _________,--'_,--'/_-__-___`--._ Sysop - Saturn's Orbit BBS
    {======>________,._.-------------' Fidonet 4:801/188
    ``---._____/ E-Mail fcbessa@gmail.com


    ... The number you have dailed...Nine-one-one...has been changed.
    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A41 2018/12/27 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (21:1/146)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to Vk3jed on Friday, May 22, 2020 21:18:28
    Vk3jed wrote to alterego <=-

    Where are the lastread pointers kept? That's been a major issue for me with NNTP in the past (using built in NNTP support in Mystic or SBBS).
    I have no experience with JSMNNTPd. I believe it has a separate
    config, which doesn't suit me either (assuming I'm running a BBS as
    well).

    That's the downside of JAMNNTPD - lastread pointers are managed
    separately from the BBS.



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    __,--=====-.__ Regards from Flavio Bessa
    _________,--'_,--'/_-__-___`--._ Sysop - Saturn's Orbit BBS
    {======>________,._.-------------' Fidonet 4:801/188
    ``---._____/ E-Mail fcbessa@gmail.com


    ... Direct from the Ministry of Silly Walks
    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A41 2018/12/27 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (21:1/146)
  • From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to Vk3jed on Friday, May 22, 2020 21:18:28
    Vk3jed wrote to Ogg <=-

    Any lastread pointers kept on the server(BBS) side? The client side lastread pointers that newsreaders normally use was a major bugbear in
    my previous attempts to use NNTP (for mobile BBSing).

    Unfortunately it's handled by the client like other NNTP servers.

    That's why it would be nice if JAMNNTPD-like functionality could
    be ported to a BBS system.

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    __,--=====-.__ Regards from Flavio Bessa
    _________,--'_,--'/_-__-___`--._ Sysop - Saturn's Orbit BBS
    {======>________,._.-------------' Fidonet 4:801/188
    ``---._____/ E-Mail fcbessa@gmail.com


    ... DalekDOS v(overflow): (I)Obey (V)ision impaired (E)xterminate
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    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A41 2018/12/27 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (21:1/146)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Vk3jed on Monday, May 18, 2020 21:31:00
    I surmise it gives you a good level of "if aint broken
    don't fix it"?

    It'll randomly drift to the top of the curiosity pile one day. ;) I

    Sounds a little like me.. I tend to have a high level of inertia, but if I find
























































































































































































































































    something to focus on it becomes full steam ahead either until its done or eventually it falls off the top of the list again.

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    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)