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Skriven 2006-02-13 10:38:00 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES SCAGLIONE
Ärende: ZOC !
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-=> CHARLES SCAGLIONE wrote to MARTIN ATKINS <=-

CS> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:07:00 -0500, MARTIN ATKINS -> CHARLES SCAGLIONE
CS> wrote:


 MA> He's not using Telnet. Being smart he uses HTTP. :)

CS> Yeah, that's a bit more friendly.  I prefer the NNTP method that I've
CS> been using now since last year.  I let PAN do the downloading and
CS> sorting. Then I use its built in editor to reply.  Very handy.  I tried
CS> Knode but it's just too confusing to setup and get working right.

You have me at a disadvantage here as i have never set up a news client.

CS> Actually both PAN and Knode could take a lesson from Agent which I
CS> consider the best news reader.  The only problem with Agent is that
CS> it's not available for Linux.

What ever your using seems to be doing the job. I was lucky in
that when the BBSs were going down like nine pins in zone 3 
i found Docsplace on the web. At the time i was using win95
and telneting in with Zoc. Also i had the urge learn more about
networking computers. There was no way i could afford Win/NT
but by a stroke of luck i saw a little article about a free
server environment called Linux. I went to a good book store
and found a Linux for dummies book with a disk in it. Any way
to cut a long story short i migrated to Linux. I wanted
to carry on telneting into the BBS because like most people
i prefer to use something i understand and i didn't know 
anything about web based login. The trouble is though Zmodem
is the only protocol Linux doesn't do very well. Zmodem is
not a very good protocol for the net and to be honest even
when using windows i couldn't find anything that could touch
Zoc for reliability. I dicided to ask Ed Koon if i could use 
something like FTP. He said he could find someone to set me
up as a point but asked why i don't just use the web interface.

After having used it now for some time i believe it is the best
way ahead for the FIDO. For some sysops it may not be an option
as i have noticed that most web BBSes use Wildcat which is not
free. There is Linux (or nix type) BBS stuff out there but i believe 
that also is not free and i'm not sure it has a web type interface. 
Now the point of this long rambling message.

I believe it would be possible to build a Linux web based BBS
using Apache. One of the problems i can see though is if the
Sysop is using DOS mail tosser and the like, then there
may be problems integrating it with Linux. If they use nix
stuff then it would be easier. Of course it all sounds good
in theory but may not be so simple in practice.

In case anyone thinks this is a shameless plug for Docsplace
i did find another BBS that is web based during the 
difficulties but i didn't become a member 'cos i'm loyal to
Ed and so i don't know how good the service is.

http://www.bbsnets.com/public/default.htm

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