BJ> Ok.  I see your point on how you are thinking of the user experience 
 BJ> using HTTP and Maximus as a BBS.....  And that may be the only real 
 BJ> way to attract new users.....  And yes, the day may have passed even 
 BJ> for that.....

 MK> Could be but then again I might use it, from a remote 
 MK> as well as locally.  I figure if it is compatible with 
 MK> browsers then I'd have whatever access I need to my 
 MK> machine from anywhere.  That is originally why I got 
 MK> into BBSing in the first place.  The rest was bonus.  
 MK> If you look at internet access on a cellphone it sure 
 MK> looks like BBSing, doesn't it?

Well, with max and telnet support, I've had that for some time....  Not too
secure..... which HTTPS could solve..... (or SSH support in Max).....

I don't have a cell phone, so I haven't see what they are doing with the
tiny screens.....

 BJ> As a hub, I'm still seeing more fidonet traffic, but not much....  I 
 BJ> still have two or three regular BBS callers.  And two of those are 
 BJ> comming in via telnet connections....  Yes, Binkleyterm is seeing 
 BJ> more traffic than max at this point.....

 MK> I say we see what can be done about that, if anything.



My BinkP mailer gets more of a workout than my Binkley mailer at this point
in time.....

 ...
 BJ> Which QWK for the users and some of the "free" qwk 
 MK> mail readers would 
 BJ> work.  So do some of the "free" point setups.....

 MK> MultiMail works great.  I haven't used it much as there 
 MK> aren't any good IP based QWK doors on BBS's but from 
 MK> what I've seen I don't think it would be a hard sell to 
 MK> user's of this type of software.  My point setup is 
 MK> just binkd, squish, msged and a bash script to piece it 
 MK> all together.  The binkd/squish combo is the same the 
 MK> hub uses.  Works great so far.

Well, getting QWK to work under the Maximus Linux port would help then....

 BJ> Unless a generic HTTPS / Telnet (with file transfer support) 
 BJ> converion added on to an HTTP server is made, I don't see that 
 BJ> happening, but maybe someone will add a web sesrver added-on that 
 BJ> emulates a Maximus BBS setup to the user, and interacts with 
 BJ> Maximus's (set of control, message, user, file information) database.

 MK> That is the idea.  I think it is doable on Linux, as 
 MK> well as any other Unixie platform such as FreeBSD.

Then the code could be (ported back) to OS/2 and probably Win32 based systems....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41



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