Hey Bob!

Oct 09 15:32 03, Bob Jones wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 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.....

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

 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.....

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

 MK>> Chat might be more doable but I am fairly sure I would not want that. 
 MK>>  :-)

 BJ> Considering that I have the Yell function turned off on my BBS..... 
 BJ> 

Don't/didn't we all?  It has been awhile for me but when I saw the tunes
file it sent a shiver down my spine.  Heh, heh.

 BJ> Ok, sometimes (rarely) I *do* use the chat function when I notice 
 BJ> someone is online....

Me too, or I did.

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

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

 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.

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

Life is good,
Maurice

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