I have an idea... create some info about this, what to do etc. and

That could work. :)

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

Much lower take up than I thought might happen. No more

Fired off an email.

All done :)

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

WWW Url Obvious

Actually I wouldnt have thought it was a requirement. Not all BBS'es
will have a website? But if webring was providing an ftelnet
interface to a BBS, then its definately not required?

If you're going to use it to drive the webring then yes you're going to need a webby URL. My initial thought was to use the fTelnet setup at the remote end. I'm looking into managing it from the webring end, but it requires getting the proxy sorted out. Apparently possible, but the intructions are a tad... thin...

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

Might this sucker work?

Well first up.. sorry, I didn't realise so much junk was escaping. Its a tad hard to figure out whats going on.

It seems I have some action between local groups and the jamnntp. There seems to be a VAST delay between something being sent to the server and the server propogating it. Which has been a cause of much consternation as you think something hasn't worked only for it to show up later.

I had to reconfigure suck. I think I was talking to an open server at news.eternal-september.org but either they changed the way it works, or the account I had was removed at some point. I can't find any of my old server scrape script either, quite strange. IT is having trouble posting the collected














































































































































































































































works to jamnntp though.

When you toss mail with FMAIL, apparently it renumbers the message base every time it tosses. (complete tosser) Apparently this confuses clients, they think














































































































































































































































there are no new articles. Sooo, anyone one know of something that won't renumber on toss?

Last but not least, FMAIL is presently sharing my IN/OUT directories in FD its fine tossing packets addressed to it, but its renaming packets to other destinations to *.dst which is a problem, that clobbers FSX outbound packets. If I can manage it somehow, I need to have in/out working directories for FMAIL/FastEcho to sit and talk to each other away from FE -> FSX packets.

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for a bit.

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

What's the web url for? ftelnet?

Web url is for the website. Usually looking for something about your BBS. if there's fTelnet there already it can be used also.

(The onus would be on the sysop to get the port opened up - which
wouldnt be any different from getting to it from the telnetguide
right?)

Pretty much, shrug, I don't like having to rely on third parties :)

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

Why not create a WEBRING entry in the nodelist, and describe a simple
set of rules/commands for processing?

Commands could be addressed to WEBLIST. SUBscribe, UNSUBscribe,
etc.

Maybe it could even faciliate a logo update if an attachment is
included.

This WEBLIST could be for the webring what ELIST is for echomail.

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the netmail would be sufficient authentication in the first place. How many people run around spoofing netmail?

From a user's POV, it's like having an FSXnet 'zine. It's nice
to see the different www welcome pages providing an overview
of their systems, and good descriptions, and help on the different
ways to "connect".

Not exactly what I had in mind going in, but a good result none the less...

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

I just set up a locally hosted fTelnet proxy & client embed, sort of reverse engineered it from Rick's myFtelnet set up so you can pass
the URL and Port (and other data) to the embed. LMK if I can help.

Now thats what I wuz looking for. Are you using the fTelnetProxy or something else? Either way a look at the setup would be spiffy.

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--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)

Once that is done, it would work for both use cases. Unless of course
you host the ftelnet proxy, then you are in control of everything
(but all traffic goes through you...)

Nod.. alll traffic, for what worst case scenario possibly 12 concurrent text sessions? That would be pretty marginal really, I'd expect, but it would still slow things down.. but no proxy is going to be perfect for everyone in the performance dept.

On a side note, I was poking through the webring list tonight, and EVERYONE that is listed already has fTelnet installed. It would be just as easy to collate the pages to the fTelnet logins and just go there.

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connect. (ponder)

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

To create the proxy site, I really just viewed the source from the myFtlenet site to grab the index + embed js & css files. I can zip
all the files up if you want them as reference.

.gz or zip whatevers easy. Yes please!

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

Much lower take up than I thought might happen. No more takers with a website to their name?

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

Keep posting a reminder. Maybe folks step away from their systems

That be true, I could stick it in for once a week rotation for now..

But I think this project might be best automated somehow. Let the

To far beyond my limitations. Waaaaaaaaay beyond...

Then when you look at those one by one, you can practically grab the little screen shot as a logo.

My thoughts went along the lines, if you don't apply for whatever reason, then my workload is already that much lighter :) IF you do apply, one or two at a time as so far, then the work load isn't so large I can't manage it. And I can keep an eye on Avon's Systems Retired messages to remove people.

Just going by the nodelist concerns me in so far as theres no guarantee of any kind of particular data. Manually adding means I can be certain the application















































































































































































































































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that needs it.

Name Sure its in the nodelist.
URL Quite possibly different to the BBS address
Logo Can't find one of these in there.

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