SexPOTS is a small telnet app that works with a modem. The POTS part of the program name stands for Plain Old Telephone Service ... rumor has it the sex part of the program name was put there because Digital Man wasn't getting any...
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: IB Joe to Marceline Jones on Sat Feb 20 2021 04:24 pm
SexPOTS is a small telnet app that works with a modem. The POTS part o program name stands for Plain Old Telephone Service ... rumor has it th part of the program name was put there because Digital Man wasn't getti any...
Ha! No, just my attempt at humor: Synchronet "Ex"ternal Plain Ole Telephone System support.
--- SBBSecho 3.13-Linux
If an external mailer like Frontdoor can exit without dropping carrier, and then SexPOTS can pickup and resume carrier and forward the
connection on to WINServer, then SexPOTS might solve my problem.
Marceline, I really don't understand what it is your trying to do...
BUT to answer your question... probably yes.
If you setup a windows based mailer... Doesn't matter which one,
configured that mailer to work with a modem, virtual or otherwise, the mailer will pass to the caller to the program SexPOTS. SexPOTS will
telnet the user to your BBS. I have tested SexPOTS in the past and it works fine
:Start
-null No 'AT commands' sent to modem
-com <device> Specify communications port device (or
number) -baud <rate> Specify baud rate for communications
port -live [handle] Communications port is already
open/connected -nohangup Do not hangup (drop DTR) after
call -host <addr | name> Specify TCP server hostname or IP
address -port <number> Specify TCP port number
-debug Enable debug log output
:Stop
see the -host and -port parameters?? That's were you would type in
the tcp/ip address to your BBS and when SexPOTS fires up it'll take
them there. If you wanted to put my address there... -host
joesbbs.com -port 2323 somebody would call your mailer and it would
pass to my BBS.
I have uploaded 2 mail tossers on my BBS for you... once you figure
this out you'll need something to process the mail...
There you go...
If an external mailer like Frontdoor can exit without dropping carrie and then SexPOTS can pickup and resume carrier and forward the connection on to WINServer, then SexPOTS might solve my problem.
Marceline, I really don't understand what it is your trying to do... BUT to answer your question... probably yes.
I am trying to get a frontend mailer to work with my Windows version of Wildcat (other than Platinum Xpress). From what people have been telling me, only Platinum Xpress works with the Windows versions of Wildcat; but maybe I can use a mailer as a Hub for other nodes and still pass human callers to Wildcat. Then when people ask why I have a mailer but no FTN message areas, I can indict Wildcat's proprietary message base.
Does SexPOTS work with DOS-based mailers ?
Looks like the author has covered all the bases with those options.
Maybe I can mount your Windows shares so that my BBS callers can read
and write directly to your message areas. Maybe you can run some kind of multi-tenant BBS.
I have uploaded 2 mail tossers on my BBS for you... once you figure this out you'll need something to process the mail...
There you go...
Can you provide details of the 2 tossers ? do they also scan WC5 mail ?
SexPOTS is a small app that is a telnet server...
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: IB Joe to Marceline Jones on Thu Feb 25 2021 08:58 am
SexPOTS is a small app that is a telnet server...
SexPOTS is a Telnet *client* not server. It answers incoming serial/modem
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: IB Joe to Marceline Jones on Thu Feb 25 2021 08:58 am
SexPOTS is a small app that is a telnet server...
SexPOTS is a Telnet *client* not server. It answers incoming serial/modem connections (e.g. "calls") and forwards that traffic to a Telnet/TCP server.
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: Rob Swindell to IB Joe on Thu Feb 25 2021 11:49 am
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: IB Joe to Marceline Jones on Thu Feb 25 2021 08:58 am
SexPOTS is a small app that is a telnet server...
SexPOTS is a Telnet *client* not server. It answers incoming serial/modem connections (e.g. "calls") and forwards that traffic to a Telnet/TCP server.
I'm just happy with putty for my own needs. Allows you to reset the font to something more readable.
Bigted11.zip, the file just above the one you mentioned ...
I am end user. I am not a programmer and I'm not technician of some kind. I spent most of my life in the financial field... I can explai a short squeeze with Game Stop.... Anyway, from what I know you canno
Are you loaded ?
As in I drink too much, yes from time to time...
viability of various options. So far I am not impressed with Wildcat
5.0's dearth of tools.
There are fixes to your problem, bu it seems there are none you want
to take. Others have told you that you need to get the Internet connectivity pack from Santronics... You've been told that Platinum Express would fix your Mailer situation... It's you that are bucking
the solutions.... I think I even recall sending you a link as to how
you can setup NetSerial with WC5 if there is no Telnet feature...
There is a group of Sysops who pass mail around with
NetSerial/WINServer & PXW... Everything works fine... Apparently
Platinum Express is optimized to work with NetSerial... All of the
SysOps are running the software that is needed.
It's not WC5's fault... The version you have of WC5 does exactly as it says it does... It was written over 25 years ago... Your version did
not have the internet connectivity pack.... Sysops who bought that we
not planning on connecting to the Internet.
Moreover, other programs like SynchroNET and Mystic that were written
back then did not connect to the internet as well. Those packages are what they are today because of years of coding and effort put forth
from their developers. I think you'd be equally not impressed with
any BBS programs that were written more than 25 years ago.
Any Windows 23Bit BBS will not work with a DOS mailer.... Not just
WC5... ANY Windows 32Bit BBS will not work with a DOS mailer. So, the simple fix is to use a Windows 32Bit Mailer with your Windows 32Bit
BBS...
You can get a DOS mailer to work with a DOS BBS though... Several
people do this right now. You said that you have WC4 pick ANY DOS
Mailer and you re good to go... This setup needs a program called
Net2BBS. I know someone who has done this... Dark Systems
bbs.dsbbs.ca . Call that BBS and see what you can do with old
technology.
I told you InterEcho was a good DOS mail tosser that supports WC4.
Since you like history so much... go with the DOS Mailer called
D'Bridge, it's currently under development and it has BinkD attached
to it... free FREE...
Important to know.... If InterEcho has support for D'Bridge, and it
may, you have to do nothing more.... If InterEcho doesn't you may have
to add a step in a batch file.
SexPOTS on DOS would probably need a packet driver. I do not think
SexPOTS contains any packet driver code.
I didn't say this... You need to have a telnet-abl BBS, regardless of
the OS.
Lets say you have Synchronet or Mystic BBS. None of these have dialup
but both of these have a telnet server. SexPORTS is a telnet CLIENT (Thanx DM) that will allow you do use a modem to connect to a TELNET
BBS. If you have a telnet BBS like we've been talking.....
THIS could be you....
In order for sexpots to work you need a telnet-able BBS. your version
of WC5 is not Telnet-able. You could make it so by adding a package
to it... OR simply use NetSerial to make it connect to the internet...
For whatever reason.... you want to make a 25 year old program work
with todays technology... and the easiest way is to do it with PXW.
There is the free way with DOS programs... complete and people are
doing that today...
And even better... The is Mystic and Synchronet. Both are complete
and you should not need anything else and have more feature than
you've been asking about.
Interoperability with DOS mailers and Windows BBS's can be overcome. Serial port communications can be resolved with virtual modems.
BSO-style outbounds are highly portable so it would not be hard to write custom scripts to pack mail for such mailers.
Stop it... It cannot be over come... well you can write your own
mailer program and all of what has been said would have been moot. If
you write Digital Man... in this echo... he can tell you technically
why DOS mailers and Windows BASES BBSes don't work. If it could be
done people would have been doing it. I gave you a link where someone
I have made an offer to talk with you... and that offer still
stands... If you are not in north America we can talk via Messenger or What's App ...
Are you wanting to have a physical dial up line?? I mean a real modem with a real phone line... when I say real I mean real. And with this
REAL modem & phone line you want to pass around fidonet mail... you'll need a mailer.
If you are just going to have users and mail passed around by use of
the Internet you will not even need a mailer. It's important that
that last statement sinks in... if you have an internet connection and
you want to pass fidonet style mail around you will not need a
mailer... a mailer like FrontDoor, InterMail, Binkley Term, Platinum Express and on and on...
This is because people use BinkD to send mail around... I use Internet
Rex because it's optimized to work with WInserver & PXW... and had
BinkD built into the package. If you want and need a mailer use
D'Bridge because it has a BinkD server built to work with it.
I have a mailer... I paid the small price years ago for PXW.... PXW
has been optimized to work with NetSerial, there is a small group of us PXW users that pass mail around with that setup ... but 99.999% use
BinkD to send mail around. You'll find it easier to catch Covid-19
than find a hub with a mailer to get you feed from. In 2020 BinkD is
the mailer and it works flawless..
Is Internet Rex still taking people's money ?
Think so... I've also been using it for over 20 years and I've never
had regrets...
I think exactly... you made my point... Mystic is more menu driven setup... the Author has thought of everything.. there is nothing you
can't do with Mystic's menu based setup... you can use Python
programming language if you want to go beyond with the menu system
allows and it also has a scripting language called MPL...
Synchronet on the other hand is mainly driven by scripting... has it's
on script language called Baja... and now uses it's own version of
Java Script.
Both have BinkD and rock...
FrontDoor goes with RemoteAccess. BinkleyTerm with Maximus. T-Mail with PCBoard. Platinum Xpress with Wildcat. D'Bridge was made for QuickBBS was i not ?
To my knowledge, Net2BBS is a telnet server. Not sure if it can be put
in front of a frontend mailer.
InterEcho was meant to run with InterMail right ?
Well, I thought you were talking about running SexPOTS on DOS platform (ie. real DOS like MS-DOS 6.22 - not NTVDM or Windows command prompt).
If it uses a packet driver, then I could receive callers on MSDOS 6.22
and pass them to WC5.
It can receive telnet calls, which is surprising given the ICP add-on includes Telnet -- so maybe they enabled telnet in wcOnline by mistake.
A win for the consumer. Heh.
I am restoring a number of BBS's as they were at the height of their reign. There was more diversity in the 1990's because there was more competion. Nowadays the variety has tapered and petered to a few mainstream choices. I do not want to use SBBSEcho. I want to use Gecho, FastEcho, TossScan, FMail, Philip, Altair. I do not want a web page. I want people to see a real ANSI login screen. I do not want a command
line BinkD server. I want a classic frontend mailer (FrontDoor, BinkleyTerm, D'Bridge, T-Mail, InterMail). I do not like the Sycnchronet message reading options. Instead I prefer Maximus' extensive mail search criterias.
The Major BBS has an ICP for MSDOS with a telnet server.
There is the mTCP library.
If DOS can run a TCPIP stack then it can be done.
The reason it has not been done is because there are easier alternative solutions.
I am off the grid. It is impossible to find me on any social media.
Nobody would ever call the physical line. So I would be wasting monthly phone bills on it. Instead, I can use a telephone line simulator to pass mail around using real modems and hear that sweet modem squawk.
Getting a frontend mailer working is a prestigious BBS artifact. It
shows the SysOp is equiped to participate on Fidonet. It is like a Jedi constructing their own light sabre. A rite of passage.
Think about what BinkD does. It basically does nothing. It is just a daemon on port 24554. It takes no skill to run it. No batch files are created to load a BBS, no routing tables, events or nodelist managers in it.
FrontDoor goes with RemoteAccess. BinkleyTerm with Maximus. T-Mail with PCBoard. Platinum Xpress with Wildcat. D'Bridge was made for QuickBBS
was it not ?
I would imagine there are a lot of people still running old mailers on virtual modems. It shows a BBS has class. Try telling SysOps who cannot receive callers via their WFC screens whether they feel something is missing. The WC4 WFC screen is a beautiful display not to be wasted. The frontend mailer is no different.
I would imagine there are a lot of people still running old mailers on virtual modems. It shows a BBS has class. Try telling SysOps who cannot receive callers via their WFC screens whether they feel something is missing. The WC4 WFC screen is a beautiful display not to be wasted. The frontend mailer is no different.
I get violet convulsions at the thought of paying money for anything related to a BBS.
Can I edit menu, message and file area configuration in Mystic at the
same time ? or do I have to drill down to one option, modify it, close
the menu, and then navigate to another menu ? what if I want to view message conference settings side by side with file areas ? or view a cascaded list of 20 different configuration settings all opened simultaneously on the screen ? how would you do that with Mystic ?
My point is different BBS's have different advantages and disadvantages.
Digital Man corrected a me the day... SexPOTS is a Telnet client...
client is the operative part... It works in conjunction with a
modem... It's a windows 32Bitapp and work stand-alone to connect to
any telnet server. If that telnet server is DOS based or whatever
it's designed to connect to a telnet server.
Yup, that's correct. I have SEXPOTS setup here to answer the modem
which then sends the modem to Net2BBS to telnet into Telegard. It used
to telnet into Mystic. I suppose I could set Telegard to use the modem directly now...
ummm... don't they require windows? windows != DOS... DOS is DOS... no GUI c4rp
involved...
Cool... During the Zombie Apocalypse, that will happen in a few
months, it'll be the BBS SysOp that will save the day...
*** Quoting IB Joe from a message to Jay Harris ***
Cool... During the Zombie Apocalypse, that will happen in a few
months, it'll be the BBS SysOp that will save the day...
In that case I'd better finish up and get my amateur radio license so I can also offer packet radio access... ;)
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: Carol Shenkenberger to Rob Swindell on Tue Mar 02 2021 08:07 pm
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: Rob Swindell to IB Joe on Thu Feb 25 2021 11:49 am
Re: Re: SexPOTS
By: IB Joe to Marceline Jones on Thu Feb 25 2021 08:58 am
SexPOTS is a small app that is a telnet server...
SexPOTS is a Telnet *client* not server. It answers incoming serial/mo connections (e.g. "calls") and forwards that traffic to a Telnet/TCP server.
I'm just happy with putty for my own needs. Allows you to reset the font something more readable.
SexPOTS isn't a client in the sense that you run it to connect to a telnet server as a user, but rather it's a "man-in-the-middle" type application whi handles the routing of data between the serial port/modem (where the dial-up user has connect) and the Telnet/TCP/IP server (where a BBS or game server i running).
As for PuTTY as a BBS client, I don't recommend it for most users. I do use PuTTY regularly for SSHing into Linux shells from Windows however.
Wholly shit what a rabbit hole... Get any version of Windows 32Bit and run multi node BBS on that... it'll run all the DOS apps you want...
On 07 Mar 21 10:59:30, Ib Joe said the following to Marceline Jones:
Wholly shit what a rabbit hole... Get any version of Windows 32Bit and multi node BBS on that... it'll run all the DOS apps you want...
While that may be true... for me the *best* DOS multi-tasker was OS/2.
Had to be dragged kicking-and-screaming to give it up in the summer of 2001.
Throw me a bone here guys get behind me ands show some support....
BTW, I have a DB question... FD has an app called FakeFD (I think)... it's small app that can handle all the semaphores and events and mail tossing th the DOS mailer can give to it. Essentially... the mailer would never have t exit out unless it's a human caller. This app comes in a native Windows app... If I recall correctly.
Wholly shit what a rabbit hole... Get any version of Windows 32Bit and run multi node BBS on that... it'll run all the DOS apps you want...
While that may be true... for me the *best* DOS multi-tasker was OS/2.
Had to be dragged kicking-and-screaming to give it up in the summer of 200
BTW, I have a DB question... FD has an app called FakeFD (I think)... it's
While that may be true... for me the *best* DOS multi-tasker was OS/2.
Had to be dragged kicking-and-screaming to give it up in the summer of 200
I hear you there.
BTW, I have a DB question... FD has an app called FakeFD (I think)... it's
That was made for losers. If you wanna do it right, do it with your own freeze.bat file.
BTW, I have a DB question... FD has an app called FakeFD (I think)...
That was made for losers. If you wanna do it right, do it with your
As it related to my question why does DB have one.... I was just thinking this... Someone could run DB's BinkD ... 32/64Bit what ever flavor... and n have to worry about running a DOS mailer... FakeDB can do all that... For example... mail comes in and FakeDB drops out and runs a native 32/64Bit ma tosser and tosses mail into a JAM message base and processes all the files with an external file processor as well.
Quoting Nick Andre to Exodus <=-
I think I mentioned this before, I loved OS/2 so much but having all
my friends showing off USB and how very easy Internet, remote access,
VPN was to do on Windows 2000... not to mention it came out of the box with facilities to do proper tape-backups.
It was a clear choice between babysitting an old system patched beyond patched or getting with the times... at that time.
Now Windows 10 is such a fucking disaster even in its Enterprise
edition that it makes me want that OS/2 box again with its flakey ATI card and Panasonic CD drives and probably the loudest IDE hard drive
I've ever owned.
Try ArcaOS. Seems a good atualized OS/2.
Try ArcaOS. Seems a good atualized OS/2.
I'll see your flakey ATI card and loud IDE drive and raise you an OAK VGA card that left artifacts when you moved the mouse too fast, and a floppy- port Travan drive.
Nick Andre wrote to Exodus <=-
Now Windows 10 is such a fucking disaster even in its Enterprise
edition that it makes me want that OS/2 box again with its flakey ATI
card and Panasonic CD drives and probably the loudest IDE hard drive
I've ever owned.
Nick Andre wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Travan... capstan/pinch roller problems, head alignment... hey at least
it wasn't an Iomega.
Travan... capstan/pinch roller problems, head alignment... hey at leas it wasn't an Iomega.
And the 90s showcased some of the worst backup programs - Seagate Backup Exec, I'm looking at you.
Travan... capstan/pinch roller problems, head alignment... hey at it wasn't an Iomega.
And the 90s showcased some of the worst backup programs - Seagate Back Exec, I'm looking at you.
And SOME of the BEST! PKZIP *.* ... ;)
And SOME of the BEST! PKZIP *.* ... ;)
The reason it has not been done is because there are easier alternati solutions.
and easier is bad??
It is bad when it reduces available options.
NET2BBS & NetFoss will get any of your DOS BBSes working via telnet
Yes but it lacks the ability to receive calls from a WFC screen.
Great!!!! Use NET2BBS & NetFoss with anything you want... If you logon to FrontDoors' web site JoHo will give you keys for FrontDoor free of charge. The developer of InterMail & InterEcho will send you copies as well. I heard FastEcho will send you keys as well if U ask... BTW, Fmail is free and under development...
I wished I read the entire message before I broke it down into separate responses ...
Why do not these authors just provide their key generators ?
So what you are saying is you are happy to throw your money into a hole.
Rob Swindell wrote to Dan Clough <=-
Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Marceline Jones <=-
Hello Marceline,
Are you aware that this is a sysop only echo?
Great point! Why is this shit-talking ignoramus allowed to post here? DM.....? ;-)
I'm not the moderator. <shrug> Mabye Marceline is/was a sysop?
I guess I was suggesting the echo be restricted to sysops only, on Vert.
She isn't a current sysop according to her recent posts. <shrug>
I beg to differ. FrontDoor is for RemoteAccess. Using FrontDoor with Maximu
That has to be the dumbest thing I ever saw written. I've used
FrontDoor since 1993. It's a mailer it has NOTHING to do with BBS Software. It loads Renegade JUST fine.
Have you used the global change feature in Wildcat's areas configuration
? For example, when meticulously checking whether message area security settings are appropriate for associated file areas before applying a global change, or trying to remember which roles have access to which conferences - unless you have a photographic memory, such activities are difficult because modal dialogs
do not allow you to compare information from two different display
screens at the same time. Menus are restrictive and are a pain in the neck. And what if I want to do a keyword search on various configuration files ?
What do you mean it is the best ANSI BBS package ? do you mean you are
too lazy
T.J. Mcmillen wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
And SOME of the BEST! PKZIP *.* ... ;)
I'd totally forgotten about using PKZIP spanning floppy disks as a backup medium. Probably the most bulletproof solution out there, aside from
"tar czvf . > /dev/tape"
NET2BBS & NetFoss will get any of your DOS BBSes working via telnet
Yes but it lacks the ability to receive calls from a WFC screen.
Nick Andre wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
For several years now I've used external encrypted USB hard drives and script with Drive Snapshot. Easily THE best shareware backup program
for Windows. It "just works".
For several years now I've used external encrypted USB hard drives and script with Drive Snapshot. Easily THE best shareware backup program for Windows. It "just works".
Hmmm. I'll have to take a look. I just got a new Windows box, and I'm using the old Windows 7 backup and restore tool with an internal 8TB drive. Media
Nick Andre wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Does it do hot-imaging? I absolutely refuse to reinstall Windows... in fact have not done so for several years now.
Does it do hot-imaging? I absolutely refuse to reinstall Windows... in fact have not done so for several years now.
I'm assuming that you'd need to do a barebones install of Windows then restore to it. I think I'm on my last Windows re-install, Ubuntu Budgie and Mint are looking pretty good.
As an aside, I'm supporting people working remotely now at my company, and the old "we don't support home hardware" has gone out the window. I've had to manage people's wifi routers, set passwords for them, and manage home network issues.
Yes.
Right. People have been saying that for 20 years. Yet,
here we (us actual sysops, not *YOU*) still are. Running
BBSes. You should give it a try.
An endangered species is something that is at risk of
extinction. The number of BBSs and SysOps remain at
historical lows. There are only ~1500 in the nodelist.
There are even less on Telnet BBS Guide. Duplicates run by
the same SysOp should not be counted. Statistics on BBS use
show that their numbers cannot be sustained after the
current SysOps die out.
So yes, there you are, and there you will stay. The few of
you left does not change your status as an endangered
species.
Nick Andre wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
As long as its working out for you then thats cool. I got out of
home-user support several years ago. No more bench work, no more house calls. Not enough money to be made in that and generally over time it became more of a hassle.
I'm sort of a jack-of-all-trades at my current company, supporting a production environment in AWS, a dev environment on vSphere, and providing user support in my spare time. It works out given the circumstances, leverages a lot of experience managing user hardware and software and the people are genuinely grateful for the support. It's a good group of people.
Where r u from?
Originally from San Francisco.
Wrong.
The standard mail processor for Maximus is Squish. But Squish has minimal support for arcmail attach systems like FrontDoor. BinkleyTerm has more
FrontDoor/Fastecho/InterNet Rex combo...
Not me. I do not pay for anything BBS-related.
==================================================
Opus Computer-Based Conversation System Version 1.70
SYSOP OPERATIONS MANUAL
14 July 1991
I believe you'd use netfoss & netserial to do that. I just tried it out wi Telegard and it seems to work. Net2BBS is free whereas netserial is US$25 for sysops:
The person in question is NOT a sysop.
Enforcing echo rules is almost impossible nowadays.
Understood, but there are some steps that can be taken.
A project of pi$$ing people off. That's all I see her doing. Digging up old crap text files from 1990-1993.
... The truth is the safest lie.
Wait, "old crap text files" is the only selling point of my BBS! :)
I'm still waiting for Mystic 10 More Cowbell Edition.
You lost me with that one. :)
... The truth is the safest lie.
Wait, "old crap text files" is the only selling point of my BBS! :)
Such as restricting access to echo(s) on a BBS. Yes, the troll could go to another board, but some won't bother. If "all" boards restricted access to certain echos, it would pretty much solve the problem.
Such as ?
Such as restricting access to echo(s) on a BBS. Yes, the troll could go
to another board, but some won't bother. If "all" boards restricted
access to certain echos, it would pretty much solve the problem.
Worth trying, it's not like it's hard to do. Just a matter of Sysops acting like..... Sysops.
Synchronet is not my cup of tea but I wouldn't slam the tea brewer.
Authors talk smack about other people's tea all the time:
ipingtherforeim.com lists about 2100. It does a pretty good
"live" check for their on-line status.
Do you have the URL for "ipingtherforeim.com" ? (it does not appear to be a valid URL).
Man .. let me go thru my 135 shareware cds I have online and find som more outdated useless crap from 1990-1994.
Are you a hoarder of useless things ?
In some ways the guy at "cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800" is doing more to preserve BBS history and culture than Rob Swindell.
Stop talking smack about people .... OMG!!!
What are you talking about ?
Where r u from?
Originally from San Francisco.
Where now..... I was thinking in the woods in Michigan somewhere leading a Militia group ... Q-Anon something or other... If that was the case I'm with you 100%... We need to work together to keep the ma down!!!!
Since you didn't ask.... I'm sitting in my living room in my boxers drinking coffee and reading mail...
Somewhere downtown oiling my AR-15.
Just Google the filenames. You will find them on Scovetta. I know the 2.50 keys work for v2.62.2. (I think even a key for v2.02 will work because I do not think the seed, hash algorithm or encryption in RA h ever changed). If you cannot obtain those files from the internet the will upload them to your BBS.
I'll make him aware ... it's not like he hasn't tried to register them.. Now the RA site is MIA, from what I can see...
I do not understand why that guy just not release it as open source
public domain. What is he holding out for ?
SexPOTS is an external utility, like wcOnline. Native serial modem
support was removed from Synchronet a long time ago. Synchronet's
paradigm is TCP/IP. It lost its gonads.
Maybe there is an external reader that renders ANSI codes.
SexPOTS is an external utility, like wcOnline. Native serial modem
support was removed from Synchronet a long time ago. Synchronet's
paradigm is TCP/IP. It lost its gonads.
Quoting Marceline Jones to Mauro Veiga <=-
In some ways the guy at "cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800" is doing more to preserve BBS history and culture than Rob Swindell.
Very unkind comment. :-(
My comment is neutral (it is neither kind or unkind). What did I say
that is unkind ?
In some ways the guy at "cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800" is doing more to preserve BBS history and culture than Rob Swindell.
Very unkind comment. :-(
My comment is neutral (it is neither kind or unkind). What did I say
that is unkind ?
It was inelegant. And others think the same. But I believe that
you really think you were not inelegant. Try to be more careful.
Let's go back to the technical conversation.
Man .. let me go thru my 135 shareware cds I have online and find som more outdated useless crap from 1990-1994.
Are you a hoarder of useless things ?
Yes, but I offer them to anyone that wants them.
In some ways the guy at "cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800" is doing more to preserve BBS history and culture than Rob Swindell.
Stop talking smack about people .... OMG!!!
What are you talking about ?
Rob has done a lot for the community and he's a nice guy
Not sure either... The author of BG Fax released his final version(s) without the need for a reg code. He said there was some agreements
made for portions of the source... I forget exactly what it was... so don't correct me DM... anyway, it's "free" but cannot be added on...
RA was the first BBS software I cut my teeth on.
I do not understand why that guy just not release it as open source
public domain. What is he holding out for ?
the code would be incomplete... it uses several commercial libraries
that cannot be released or come in only binary format...
SexPOTS is an external utility, like wcOnline. Native serial modem
support was removed from Synchronet a long time ago. Synchronet's
paradigm is TCP/IP. It lost its gonads.
I cannot remember the last computer I had with a serial port...
In some ways the guy at "cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800" is doing more preserve BBS history and culture than Rob Swindell.
Rob has done a lot for the community and he's a nice guy
When have I talked smack about Rob Swindell ?
Not sure either... The author of BG Fax released his final version(s without the need for a reg code. He said there was some agreements made for portions of the source... I forget exactly what it was... so don't correct me DM... anyway, it's "free" but cannot be added on... RA was the first BBS software I cut my teeth on.
It probably contains 3rd-party libraries licensed for distribution but
not modification. He could have formed a team to replace those sections but nobody cares anymore.
Do you also believe that a "true" automobile has to be started with a manual crank handle which inserts into the front of the car? Using your logic, you must believe that. Right?
SexPOTS is an external utility, like wcOnline. Native serial modem
support was removed from Synchronet a long time ago. Synchronet's
paradigm is TCP/IP. It lost its gonads.
I cannot remember the last computer I had with a serial port...
Nowadays people pay to add serial cards to their boards.
A true BBS has native support for serial ports.
No. And air conditioning, a radio, and seatbelts should not be
available.
Rob Swindell wrote to Dan Clough <=-
I'm not the moderator. <shrug> Mabye Marceline is/was a sysop?
Marceline Jones wrote to IB JOE <=-
I beg to differ. FrontDoor is for RemoteAccess. Using FrontDoor with Maximus is
like wearing a tie with a baseball cap, or vampires dating werewolves,
or bestiality.
mark lewis wrote to IB Joe <=-
i don't know what ""RA site"" you are speaking of but rapro.com is
still operational...
mark lewis wrote to Nighthawk <=-
I wonder if someone still caters for that website...
if you are speaking of rapro.com, i suspect that bruse morse still
manages it...
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