Hi Rob,
So, I took out all the old BBS list stuff and just left the JSON and so... my BBS vanished from the list? Is the old format still required?
I could
put
it back but I was happy to get rid of the code that made it. (:
--- DIGITAL MAN wrote ---
That's probably coincidental. Are you still advertising your BBS as
running Synchronet software?
--
Ydigital man (rob)
That's probably coincidental. Are you still advertising your BBS as running Synchronet software?
--
Ydigital man (rob)
Heh. Well, kind of. The code says:
# Trick synchronet bbs list into thinking we are one of them
print "Synchronet BBS for Win32 Version 3.18"
...and then hides it. You'd have to look at the scroll back to
notice. Pretty nafarious. I'm not sure what came over me years
ago...
--- MRO wrote ---
you probably had bbs software envy
--- DIGITAL MAN wrote ---
That's probably coincidental. Are you still advertising your BBS as running Synchronet software?
--
Ydigital man (rob)
Heh. Well, kind of. The code says:
# Trick synchronet bbs list into thinking we are one of them
print "Synchronet BBS for Win32 Version 3.18"
...and then hides it. You'd have to look at the scroll back to
notice. Pretty nafarious. I'm not sure what came over me years
ago...
On the BBS list messages, the system says it's "Quarkware BBS".
I'd love to come out of the cold, if you know what I
mean...
So your BBS entry used to have it's "software" property set to "Synchronet" and that is why it would appears in the sbbslist.html. The sbbslist.html is only for Synchronet BBSes (although any/all BBSes can be/are included in the distributed sbbslist.json and browseable using the sbbslist.js "door").
--- DIGITAL MAN wrote ---
So your BBS entry used to have it's "software" property set to
"Synchronet" and that is why it would appears in the sbbslist.html. The sbbslist.html is only for Synchronet BBSes (although any/all BBSes can be/are included in the distributed sbbslist.json and browseable using the sbbslist.js "door").
--
digital man (rob)
--- M wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
he's a bbs cuckoo!
that bird who lays it's eggs in another's nest!
--- M wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
he's a bbs cuckoo!
that bird who lays it's eggs in another's nest!
Yep. To be fair, my nest isn't very big.
Re: BBSlist
By: the doctor to MRO on Wed Mar 09 2022 10:52 pm
--- M wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
he's a bbs cuckoo!
that bird who lays it's eggs in another's nest!
Yep. To be fair, my nest isn't very big.
i dont think people use those bbs lists anyways.
atleast with the synchronet one it actively checks if they are up.
with telnetbbsguide and iptfia guide i still find bbses that are down or just misconfigured and not picking up.
removed it. i used an old version of opera browser portable to fetch it. i'm going to try that with pcmike's site since he uses some weird auth that wont allow you to get it via an external method [ftp client]
speaking of the synchronet bbs list you should probably make that syncterm list available since ftp isnt working for browsers anymore.
Re: BBSlistyeah i should have wrote http
By: MRO to digitalman on Wed Mar 09 2022 11:39 pm
speaking of the synchronet bbs list you should probably make that syncterm list available since ftp isnt working for browsers anymore.
Assuming you mean "available via http", yeah, done. Tomorrow's generated sbbslist.html will include an HTTP URL instead of an FTP URL. But the list is already avaliable via HTTP at http://synchro.net/Synchronet/syncterm.
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
i dont think people use those bbs lists anyways.
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
i dont think people use those bbs lists anyways.
Or BBSes. I occasionally get people stopping by... I should ask them
where they came from...
--- MRO wrote ---You get psycho fans? I'm jealous!! I used to get those back in the day.
Re: BBSlist
i have an info form and sometimes they do that.
sometimes they just find it randomly on a google search.
i've had a few crazies so i try not to advertise anymore. like some real
bad ones.
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? Synchronet ? ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
i have an info form and sometimes they do that.
sometimes they just find it randomly on a google search.
i've had a few crazies so i try not to advertise anymore. like some real bad ones.
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? Synchronet ? ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
You get psycho fans? I'm jealous!! I used to get those back in the day.
There was this guy, Chiken (no relation to e-chicken) named Eric Barbour
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
i have an info form and sometimes they do that.
sometimes they just find it randomly on a google search.
i've had a few crazies so i try not to advertise anymore. like some real bad ones.
---
? Synchronet ? ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
You get psycho fans? I'm jealous!! I used to get those back in the day.
There was this guy, Chiken (no relation to e-chicken) named Eric Barbour
who worked for 911 emergency in Phoenix, and used that information to
harass people. He wrote a short story in which I am depicted.
(I mainly just have lines like "Mark mumbled, 'whuzzuh wazza <thump>'
and passed out".
He obviously knew me. The death threats aimed at my parents werent as funny.
Someone wrote a song about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbnA0sP2ek
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
By: the doctor to MRO on Fri Mar 11 2022 09:13 am
you shouldn't be jealous of being harrassed by lame retarded people.
--- DIGITAL MAN wrote ---
Interesting. Where's the short story?
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: BBSlist
i dont think people use those bbs lists anyways.
Or BBSes. I occasionally get people stopping by... I should ask them where they came from...
--- DIGITAL MAN wrote ---
Interesting. Where's the short story?
I had it, very briefly, on my website, but the xyl who was one of the subjects objected, and I don't blame her, so I took it down.
It was funny to me, but I wasn't a main character. It was pretty nasty
to her, and to Mike Donnelly (author of Gilder...)
I've got it someplace. If I find it I'll send you a copy via email.
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"No matter where you go, there you are..."
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* TARDIS BBS - Home of QUARKware * telnet bbs.cortex-media.info
Is it necessary for you to post to SYNCDATA so often?
The Doctor,
Is it necessary for you to post to SYNCDATA so often?
It dosen't he's just being obnoxious.
It dosen't he's just being obnoxious.
I'm not following. Who cares if he posts to syncdata fifty times a day?
It dosen't he's just being obnoxious.
I'm not following. Who cares if he posts to syncdata fifty times a day?
I'm not following. Who cares if he posts to syncdata fifty times a
day?
Nightfox is probably the only one that freaks out over this.
--- DRAGON wrote ---
On 3/13/2022 1:56 PM, the doctor wrote:
The Doctor,
Is it necessary for you to post to SYNCDATA so often?
--- ANDRE wrote ---
Is it necessary for you to post to SYNCDATA so often?
Why does it matter?
Re: Re: BBSlist
By: Denn to Andre on Sun Mar 20 2022 06:46 pm
I'm not following. Who cares if he posts to syncdata fifty times a
day?
Nightfox is probably the only one that freaks out over this.
Huh? I've never noticed how many times anyone posts in syncdata (and it doesn't bother me) I don't look at that sub and I have it disabled in my newscan. I'm not sure where you got this idea that I'd be freaked out about it..? Unless you've randomly decided to troll me?
--- DRAGON wrote ---
On 3/13/2022 1:56 PM, the doctor wrote:
The Doctor,
Is it necessary for you to post to SYNCDATA so often?
No, not really. I'll fix it...
--- MRO wrote ---
so you are posting every single day to the list, right?
that is a lot, though. are you trying to get on the synchronet bbs list
by scripting that?
--- MRO wrote ---
so you are posting every single day to the list, right?
that is a lot, though. are you trying to get on the synchronet bbs list by scripting that?
Well, yes. I'm not trying to do that to get on the list... I could do
that by going back to my old ways (that no one ever complained about)
of spoofing that I was Synchronet.
--- MRO wrote ---
Re: Re: BBSlist
Well, that is a bbs list for synchronet bbses. you really shouldn't put yourself on that website list of synchronet bbses. there's other lists
out there. you're just being deceptive and i think it's just wrong to do that or think of doing that.
i see there's other systems on there that are non synchronet. if i were
running the list i'd make their entries a separate link.
your bbs is unique and you should work that angle.
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