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  • The BBS days are long gone

    From Ant@21:1/5 to Gactimus on Mon Aug 20 04:54:08 2018
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    Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:
    The internet killed them.

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  • From Robert Wolfe@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 14 03:35:22 2019
    From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
    Subject: Re: The BBS days are long gone

    :(

    Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:
    The internet killed them.

    not really, some of us are still alive and kicking :)

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Robert Wolfe on Sat Sep 14 03:30:28 2019
    Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@wildcat.uuhec.net> wrote:
    From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
    Subject: Re: The BBS days are long gone

    :(

    Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:
    The internet killed them.

    not really, some of us are still alive and kicking :)

    Like which ones (the popular ones)? I know all my local ones are gone. :P
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  • From Robert Wolfe@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 14 18:35:56 2019
    From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    Subject: Re: The BBS days are long gone

    Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@wildcat.uuhec.net> wrote:
    From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
    Subject: Re: The BBS days are long gone

    :(

    Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:
    The internet killed them.

    not really, some of us are still alive and kicking :)

    Like which ones (the popular ones)? I know all my local ones are gone

    There is a telnet BBS listing that lists a lot of BBSes that are
    available via telnet and even via SSH.

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  • From Michael Freitag@21:1/5 to Ant on Mon Sep 16 08:56:06 2019
    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    Subject: Re: The BBS days are long gone
    :(
    The internet killed them.
    not really, some of us are still alive and kicking :)
    Like which ones (the popular ones)? I know all my local ones are gone. :P

    I don't think they are gone (apart from some telnet BBSes - honour to the sysops!)
    I think it developed. Look at Facebook. It's nothin different than a very huge BBS. And people became more and more lazy consumers - or the internet has been
    brought more and more to lazy consumers... Installing a client? OMG! Better take the web frontend regardless if someone is collecting your data.

    I am currently working on a modern BBS system, written in PHP and relying on common used technology like NNTP, Jabber and SMTP(S)/IMAP(S). Users can login on the web frontend - the BBS system - or connect directly to the services with their clients.

    What do you think about the approach to make a BBS system with modern technology?

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  • From HusTler@21:1/122 to Michael Freitag on Mon Sep 16 15:02:15 2019
    Like which ones (the popular ones)? I know all my local ones are gone. :

    I don't think they are gone (apart from some telnet BBSes - honour to the I am currently working on a modern BBS system, written in PHP and
    relying on common used technology like NNTP, Jabber and SMTP(S)/IMAP(S). Users can login on the web frontend - the BBS system - or connect
    directly to the services with their clients.

    What do you think about the approach to make a BBS system with modern technology?


    If you take the time to look at the current BBS list you'll find most Synchronet BBS and Mystic BBS packages are very "modern" and have all of the protocals found online eg. Telnet, SSH, ftp http,https,nntp,smtp and pop
    email. You can also find Irc chat on Synchronet and MRC chat on Mystic. You have QWK and FTN netorking. Hmmmm am I forgeting anything? ;-)

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  • From Robert Wolfe@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 16 22:10:45 2019
    I don't think they are gone (apart from some telnet BBSes - honour to
    s!)
    I think it developed. Look at Facebook. It's nothin different than a
    BBS. And people became more and more lazy consumers - or the internet brought more and more to lazy consumers... Installing a client? OMG!
    take the web frontend regardless if someone is collecting your data.

    I am currently working on a modern BBS system, written in PHP and rel
    common used technology like NNTP, Jabber and SMTP(S)/IMAP(S). Users c
    on the web frontend - the BBS system - or connect directly to the ser
    their clients.

    What do you think about the approach to make a BBS system with
    modern technolog y?

    Let's see. Synchronet, Mystic, WINServer, BBBS -- all of these already
    do the very thing you are seeing. At least two out of those are open
    source and one is still supported shareware and three all multi-platform
    and have one has source code available. So, why, I ask, are you trying
    to reinvent the wheel?

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  • From Michael Freitag@21:1/5 to Robert Wolfe on Tue Sep 17 08:32:27 2019
    Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@wildcat.uuhec.net> wrote:
    Let's see. Synchronet, Mystic, WINServer, BBBS -- all of these already
    do the very thing you are seeing. At least two out of those are open
    source and one is still supported shareware and three all multi-platform
    and have one has source code available. So, why, I ask, are you trying
    to reinvent the wheel?

    Oh, thats really cool!
    Short answer: I just didn't know that :)
    On the other hand, in former times BBS systems has been made by the sysops themselves. So no BBS looked like the other I found that also very interesting. So I will keep on doing (also as half of the work is being done :) ) but also will have a look at the other systems.


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