I just want to say that I'm gratefull for all people who are active here. Being busy with retro gaming and computers I also decided to setup a BBS again. Oh man what is it different than back in the days. I miss the massive users logons who also chat to sysop. I'm also not that active on the system than in those days.

What could or should I do to make the BBS more usefull to users?

The BBS deletes automatically users that dont return resulting now in no users anymore in my BBS... feels lonely.

Maybe open it up via website? But I'm woried for attacks/exploits.

I'm gratefull because you all help eachother and me. It is like the Amiga community. So many ppl help each other. I like it.
HAWKEYE

- MASH BBS - mash4077.ddns.net - The Netherlands -

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to All on Tue Mar 05 2019 11:40 pm

I just want to say that I'm gratefull for all people who are active here. Being busy with retro gaming and computers I also decided to setup a BBS again. Oh man what is it different than back in the days. I miss the massive users logons who also chat to sysop. I'm also not that active on the system than in those days.

Yeah, it's not exactly the same as back in the day, but it gives a lot of the same feel though.

What could or should I do to make the BBS more usefull to users?

Maybe open it up via website? But I'm woried for attacks/exploits.

I wouldn't really worry about attcks via the web. A web site might actually help. One thing I think the web site can be useful for is installing fTelnet, which is a web-based ANSI BBS telnet client for your BBS. That can be useful for people who don't (yet) have an ANSI telnet client installed on their BBS.

Nightfox

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to All on Tue Mar 05 2019 11:40 pm

I just want to say that I'm gratefull for all people who are active here. Being busy with retro gaming and computers I also decided to setup a BBS again. Oh man what is it different than back in the days. I miss the massive users logons who also chat to sysop. I'm also not that active on the system than in those days.

What could or should I do to make the BBS more usefull to users?

What I do is just put stuff on my BBS's that I enjoyed back in the day.
at one time I had like 6 or 7 sharware discs but I pulled those off my system in favor of current useful files for the most part.
BBS games back in the day were fun so I have a bunch of those to play.
a good multi BBS message base like Dove-net is also great.
Most BBSes only get a few regular callers these day's but it's still allot of fun.

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Thanks Nightfox. I indeed installed ecwebv4 for this reason... it is working. Only think how to do the portmapping. 4077 to 80 on the BBS machine but how to do the SSL/secure port.

I forwarded 23 to my BBS machine but when I click Connect via telnet locally it works but via internet it doesn't.

HAWKEYE

- MASH BBS - mash4077.ddns.net - The Netherlands -

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I also like the vibe on Dovenet and SBBS sysops.

I think I'm going to make a MASH4077 tribute BBS... not like the old days but fun to do.

HAWKEYE

- MASH BBS - mash4077.ddns.net - The Netherlands -

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to Nightfox on Wed Mar 06 2019 01:04 pm

Thanks Nightfox. I indeed installed ecwebv4 for this reason... it is

It would be good to quote the part of the message you're responding to, to make it easier to remember what you're replying to.

Nightfox

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Re: Gratefull
By: Nightfox to Hawkeye on Wed Mar 06 2019 08:57:43

Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to Nightfox on Wed Mar 06 2019 01:04 pm

Thanks Nightfox. I indeed installed ecwebv4 for this reason... it is

True, that is not possible via webv4...

At least I didnt find an option/feature to quote.
HAWKEYE

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to Nightfox on Wed Mar 06 2019 01:04 pm

It would be good to quote the part of the message you're responding to, to make it easier to remember what you're replying to.

Nightfox

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My bad!!!! Next to the Submit button there IS a quote button.

HAWKEYE

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to Nightfox on Wed Mar 06 2019 10:01 pm

True, that is not possible via webv4...

At least I didnt find an option/feature to quote.

That feature is there. When replying to a message with webv4, there should be a button next to the Submit button that says "Quote".

Nightfox

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Re: Gratefull
By: Nightfox to Hawkeye on Thu Mar 07 2019 09:51:57

True, that is not possible via webv4...
At least I didnt find an option/feature to quote.

That feature is there. When replying to a message with webv4, there should be a button next to the Submit button that says "Quote".

My bad... found it later
HAWKEYE

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to All on Tue Mar 05 2019 23:40:41

The BBS deletes automatically users that dont return
resulting now in no users anymore in my BBS... feels lonely.

i'm sure you've found it by now but if you haven't, you can turn that off so they aren't deleted after X days of inactivity...


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Re: Gratefull
By: Rampage to Hawkeye on Tue Apr 30 2019 02:09 am

The BBS deletes automatically users that dont return
resulting now in no users anymore in my BBS... feels lonely.

i'm sure you've found it by now but if you haven't, you can turn that off so they aren't deleted after X days of inactivity...

In that case though, you'd end up with a lot of unused accounts, which can inflate your stats a bit and make it look like you have more active users than you actually do. Also, sometimes people might come back and forget their password and end up creating another account, which inflates your user stats even further..

Nightfox

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Re: Gratefull
By: Nightfox to Rampage on Tue Apr 30 2019 09:50 am

In that case though, you'd end up with a lot of unused accounts, which can inflate your stats a bit and make it look like you
have more active users than you actually do. Also, sometimes people might come back and forget their password and end up
creating another account, which inflates your user stats even further..

Which sounds good, though. It's the Facebook model! (10 billion users and growing!) ;-)

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Re: Gratefull
By: Hawkeye to All on Tue Mar 05 2019 23:40:41

i'm sure you've found it by now but if you haven't, you can turn that off so they aren't deleted after X days of inactivity...

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Yeah decided not to use it... I have to let go... in my old BBS era old/obsolete users were purged and I was fine with it... there are not that much users, that is the reality. But at least we are here :)


HAWKEYE

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Re: Is this for real?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu May 02 2019 10:19 am

i'm sure you've found it by now but if you haven't, you can turn that
off so they aren't deleted after X days of inactivity...

Yeah decided not to use it... I have to let go... in my old BBS era old/obsolete users were purged and I was fine with it... there are not that much users, that is the reality. But at least we are here :)

If you want "traffic" you're better off setting up a Website. Even then, get"ing "users" is difficult. Running a BBS is for your own enjoyment. Most BBS users are SysOps themselves. The lack of BBS software also makes it very hard to make your BBS unique. Unless you're programmer and can modify the source code easily, you're in for a jounrney. There really isn't much a BBS can offer that can't be found elsewhere on the internet. I'm a "hacker". That means I "hack" at the code to make it do what I want. It's a drawn out process of trial and error. I break it, then fix it, break it, then fix it. That said there's nothing more rewarding when it works! Nobody else will ever see what I did, other then me.
That's just my opinion ......I could wrong ;-)


Heliarc


Heliarc

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Re: Gratefull
By: Heliarc to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 02 2019 10:37 pm

If you want "traffic" you're better off setting up a Website. Even then, get"ing "users" is difficult. Running a BBS is for your own enjoyment. Most BBS users are SysOps themselves. The lack of BBS software also makes it very hard to make your BBS unique. Unless you're programmer and can modify the source code easily, you're in for a jounrney. There really

There aren't many modern BBS packages that are currently in development, that's true. Synchronet and Mystic are 2 that I know of. EleBBS is another I know that supports modern protocols such as telnet, but I'm not sure it's actively being developed. However, I'm pretty sure you can still use old DOS BBS packages and get something set up so they'll accept calls via telnet.

Also, even though there aren't many modern BBS packages these days, you can still customize them to make them look fairly unique, with enough effort. Synchronet lets you customize many of its text strings, and you can also write custom modules in JavaScript & Baja for Synchronet to do custom things. You can also modify the lines in text.dat to run a JavaScript or Baja module instead of displaying plain text. So with enough work, I think you could make a Synchronet BBS look and behave any way you want.

It's nice that Synchronet is open-source, but if you want to modify its source code to customize it for your needs, then you'd need to merge in your changes every time you update to a new version of Synchronet, which would be a hassle..

Nightfox

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Re: Gratefull
By: Nightfox to Heliarc on Fri May 03 2019 09:59 am

There aren't many modern BBS packages that are currently in development, that's true. Synchronet and Mystic are 2 that I know of. EleBBS is another I know that supports modern protocols such as telnet, but I'm not sure it's

WWIV is still being developed as well.

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dmxrob wrote to Nightfox <=-

There aren't many modern BBS packages that are currently in development, that's true. Synchronet and Mystic are 2 that I know of. EleBBS is another I know that supports modern protocols such as telnet, but I'm not sure it's

WWIV is still being developed as well.

There is currently a re-write from scratch version of PCBoard
being developed (v16) that is due to be released in just a few
months...



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Re: Re: Gratefull
By: Dan Clough to dmxrob on Fri May 03 2019 09:00 pm

There is currently a re-write from scratch version of PCBoard
being developed (v16) that is due to be released in just a few
months...

I ran PCBoard from about 1992-1997, I actually lived a few miles from Clark Development co.
I bought directly from Fred and the gang.
I several years ago gave my PCBoard and manuals to the thrift store.
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