Re: Hotline
By: Nightfox to Knight on Wed Oct 22 2014 21:10:53

The topic of how to make BBSes more popular has come up on BBS forums from time to time, and it seems like a hard question to answer. I'll admit, I think it would be cool to see an integrated client app that could access all the various parts of a modern BBS in one app. I'd be curious to hear peoples' ideas about how to make it a better experience than what we have currently though - Perhaps I'm just used to using the separate apps for the different protocols. I suppose having an integrated client would allow for easy simultaneous use of the protocols - playing a door game via telnet while downloading a file via FTP, etc..

We need Some Inovation of Teaching in School to use FTP/BBS/etc ...

to kid's to learn old Service

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Re: Hotline
By: spacesst to Nightfox on Fri May 19 2017 08:32 am

Re: Hotline
By: Nightfox to Knight on Wed Oct 22 2014 21:10:53

The topic of how to make BBSes more popular has come up on BBS forums f time to time, and it seems like a hard question to answer. I'll admit, think it would be cool to see an integrated client app that could acces all the various parts of a modern BBS in one app. I'd be curious to hea peoples' ideas about how to make it a better experience than what we ha currently though - Perhaps I'm just used to using the separate apps for the different protocols. I suppose having an integrated client would al for easy simultaneous use of the protocols - playing a door game via telnet while downloading a file via FTP, etc..

We need Some Inovation of Teaching in School to use FTP/BBS/etc ...

to kid's to learn old Service

"... A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love your

What I find with the BBS's I freqent today is that many aren't that
customised.

I've thought about creating a private BBS for use with my friends, so we can share stuff, chat and post without having our privacy invaded like on
Facebook. I'm guessing there isn't the data harvesting with what goes on
here like there is with Google and Facebook, which could be an advantage for some.


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Re: Hotline
By: Boraxman to spacesst on Sat May 20 2017 04:38 pm

I've thought about creating a private BBS for use with my friends, so we can share stuff, chat and post without having our privacy invaded like on Facebook. I'm guessing there isn't the data harvesting with what goes on here like there is with Google and Facebook, which could be an advantage for some.

Actually Google datamines all our BBS message bases.
google pays no attention to my robots.txt file and still goes through my blocked folders.

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Re: Hotline
By: Boraxman to spacesst on Sat May 20 2017 04:38 pm

Facebook. I'm guessing there isn't the data harvesting with what goes on here like there is with Google and Facebook, which could be an advantage for some.

all this stuff (dovenet)is being indexed by google bot and other search engines and there are multiple copies online.
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Re: Hotline
By: Denn Gray to Boraxman on Sat May 20 2017 07:57 am

Re: Hotline
By: Boraxman to spacesst on Sat May 20 2017 04:38 pm

I've thought about creating a private BBS for use with my friends, so we share stuff, chat and post without having our privacy invaded like on Facebook. I'm guessing there isn't the data harvesting with what goes on here like there is with Google and Facebook, which could be an advantage some.

Actually Google datamines all our BBS message bases.
google pays no attention to my robots.txt file and still goes through my blocked folders.

Oh crap, is they because they are also available by HTTP?

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Re: Hotline
By: Boraxman to Denn Gray on Sun May 21 2017 12:51 pm

I've thought about creating a private BBS for use with my friends, so we share stuff, chat and post without having our privacy invaded like on Facebook. I'm guessing there isn't the data harvesting with what goes on here like there is with Google and Facebook, which could be an advantage some.

Actually Google datamines all our BBS message bases.
google pays no attention to my robots.txt file and still goes through my blocked folders.

Oh crap, is they because they are also available by HTTP?

They hit my FTP server quite abit, they're the least of my worries.
all Google does is crawl around the web indexing stuff.
the hackbots try to hack into root, I doubt they ever really could, even if they did not much havok they could cause my little BBS lol.
I recently setup my ip.can and canned the worst offenders, then changed a few settings like only allowing to consecetive log ins by the same ip.
I also put a fun rejection message so when I block them and they try to hit my BBS I put a rejection message to make them think they're hitting a USA federal computer system.
They probably think they're A1 hackers when they see that lol.

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Re: Hotline
By: Boraxman to Denn Gray on Sun May 21 2017 12:51 pm

Oh crap, is they because they are also available by HTTP?

yep
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Re: Hotline
By: Boraxman to spacesst on Sat May 20 2017 16:38:18

I've thought about creating a private BBS for use with my friends, so we can share stuff, chat and post without having our privacy invaded like on Facebook. I'm guessing there isn't the data harvesting with what goes on here like there is with Google and Facebook, which could be an advantage for some.

Right, old system are not Compromise by Security Agency

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Re: Hotline
By: Kirkman to Knight on Wed Nov 12 2014 09:47 am

It might also be that there isn't a good terminal client for OS X

As mentioned, the native OSX terminal client is a little meager but can be replaced by iTerm. Both the ansi asci functionalities AND the fact that it supports some pretty cool visual themes make it a worthy alternative I frequently prefer to the native client.

Regarding Dragging and Dropping of files into a BBS client, that seems awefully advance for such an old technology. It would be like trying to build a holodec on the original Enterprise .. no ?

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