• VOTING.DAT

    From DesotoFireflite@VERT to All on Fri Nov 11 07:42:09 2016
    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 10:42:33 2016
    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    The other day, I saw a message in the Synchronet Programming area about some commits related to a SMB-based voting system. I wonder if it's related to that.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 12:23:45 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to All on Fri Nov 11 2016 07:42 am

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    digital man

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  • From Lord Time@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 12:20:12 2016
    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    if you logon to vert. into your bbs qwk account
    (under Change Packet Configuration) you see this :

    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    mine was in off mode, how many are in off mode (maybe the older account) and the rest might be in the on mode (yes)



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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Nightfox on Fri Nov 11 17:06:01 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Nightfox to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 10:42 am

    The other day, I saw a message in the Synchronet Programming area about some commits related to a SMB-based voting system. I wonder if it's related to that.

    I'll check it out again. I looked this morning, but I was running late, so didn't look that hard. Thanks

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 17:06:54 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:23 pm

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    Cool, sounds awesome. I look forward to seeing it when done.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 14:30:44 2016
    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    That sounds cool. I haven't upgraded my Synchronet binaries, so I haven't seen this in action yet. Does the latest Synchronet show the upvotes & downvotes? Also, will there be interfaces added to the JavaScript layer to submit votes & view the results?

    Nightfox

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  • From Knightmare@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 18:16:00 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to All on Fri Nov 11 2016 07:42 am

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    SysOp: C.G. Learn, AKA: DesotoFireflite
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    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Lord Time on Fri Nov 11 16:24:57 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Lord Time to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:20 pm

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    if you logon to vert. into your bbs qwk account
    (under Change Packet Configuration) you see this :

    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    mine was in off mode, how many are in off mode (maybe the older account) and the rest might be in the on mode (yes)

    All users (including QWKnet accounts) should have that option off by default. I think when I was initially working on it, it was including the VOTING.DAT for all QWK packets and that might be what he was seeing.

    If you're a recent running v3.17 development build, then when your system sends a .REP packet to VERT, it'll detect the VOTING.DAT file and turn that flag on for your QWKnet account automatically.

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Fri Nov 11 16:28:11 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 2016 02:30 pm

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    That sounds cool. I haven't upgraded my Synchronet binaries, so I haven't seen this in action yet. Does the latest Synchronet show the upvotes & downvotes? Also, will there be interfaces added to the JavaScript layer to submit votes & view the results?

    Yes, to both. You'll probably want to add this support to your message reader mod too, but I'll need to enable you with changes to the JS object model. Your reader may display votes now as blank messages, or just ignore them, depending on how its written. I haven't seriously looked into the JS-ification of this feature yet.

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Knightmare on Fri Nov 11 16:28:42 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Knightmare to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 06:16 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to All on Fri Nov 11 2016 07:42 am

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    SysOp: C.G. Learn, AKA: DesotoFireflite
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    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

    Are you still?

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 17:52:40 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:23 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to All on Fri Nov 11 2016 07:42 am

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    Nobody has voted on this message? :-(

    digital man

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  • From Black Panther@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 19:45:20 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Lord Time on Fri Nov 11 2016 16:24:57

    All users (including QWKnet accounts) should have that option off by default think when I was initially working on it, it was including the VOTING.DAT fo all QWK packets and that might be what he was seeing.

    It's been coming through here about 2-3 times per day for the last couple days.

    Black Panther
    Sysop
    Castle Rock BBS

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Black Panther on Fri Nov 11 19:03:15 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Black Panther to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 2016 07:45 pm

    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Lord Time on Fri Nov 11 2016 16:24:57

    All users (including QWKnet accounts) should have that option off by default think when I was initially working on it, it was including the VOTING.DAT fo all QWK packets and that might be what he was seeing.

    It's been coming through here about 2-3 times per day for the last couple days.

    Interesting... I just checked your QWKnet account and that option is off:
    QWK Settings for CASTLERO #93:

    [A] Ctrl-A Color Codes : Leave in
    [T] Archive Type : zip
    [E] Include E-mail Messages : Un-read Only
    [I] Include File Attachments : Yes
    [D] Delete E-mail Automatically : Yes
    [F] Include New Files List : No
    [N] Include Index Files : No
    [C] Include Control Files : No
    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    I'll have to look into this further. :-)

    digital man

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  • From Knightmare@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 00:07:56 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Fri Nov 11 2016 04:28 pm



    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

    Are you still?

    digital man



    That's a negative at this time, since you mentioned the issue on a previous post.

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  • From Lord Time@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 20:56:04 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Lord Time to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:20 pm

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    if you logon to vert. into your bbs qwk account
    (under Change Packet Configuration) you see this :

    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    mine was in off mode, how many are in off mode (maybe the older account) and the rest might be in the on mode (yes)

    All users (including QWKnet accounts) should have that option off by default. I think when I was initially working on it, it was including the VOTING.DAT for all QWK packets and that might be what he was seeing.

    ok

    If you're a recent running v3.17 development build, then when your system sends a .REP packet to VERT, it'll detect the VOTING.DAT file and turn that flag on for your QWKnet account automatically.

    ohh ok, I am now getting the voting.dat file, running the build date of 10/19/16, I just haven't put in 11/11/16 (plus the two files that go into \sbbs\text\menu dir.), they did pass the test sbbs here


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  • From Lord Time@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 21:01:32 2016
    All users (including QWKnet accounts) should have that option off by default think when I was initially working on it, it was including the VOTING.DAT fo all QWK packets and that might be what he was seeing.

    It's been coming through here about 2-3 times per day for the last couple days.

    Interesting... I just checked your QWKnet account and that option is off: QWK Settings for CASTLERO #93:

    [A] Ctrl-A Color Codes : Leave in
    [T] Archive Type : zip
    [E] Include E-mail Messages : Un-read Only
    [I] Include File Attachments : Yes
    [D] Delete E-mail Automatically : Yes
    [F] Include New Files List : No
    [N] Include Index Files : No
    [C] Include Control Files : No
    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    I'll have to look into this further. :-)

    I just check my bbs qwk account, it also turn off, but now getting it

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  • From Black Panther@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 23:30:15 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Black Panther on Fri Nov 11 2016 19:03:15

    It's been coming through here about 2-3 times per day for the last couple days.

    Interesting... I just checked your QWKnet account and that option is off: QWK Settings for CASTLERO #93:

    [A] Ctrl-A Color Codes : Leave in
    [T] Archive Type : zip
    [E] Include E-mail Messages : Un-read Only
    [I] Include File Attachments : Yes
    [D] Delete E-mail Automatically : Yes
    [F] Include New Files List : No
    [N] Include Index Files : No
    [C] Include Control Files : No
    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    I'll have to look into this further. :-)

    From what I've seen today, it's come through about 5 times. The last time was 11:25:22p MDT.

    Black Panther
    Sysop
    Castle Rock BBS

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Black Panther on Fri Nov 11 23:38:19 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Black Panther to Digital Man on Fri Nov 11 2016 11:30 pm

    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Black Panther on Fri Nov 11 2016 19:03:15

    It's been coming through here about 2-3 times per day for the last couple days.

    Interesting... I just checked your QWKnet account and that option is off: QWK Settings for CASTLERO #93:

    [A] Ctrl-A Color Codes : Leave in
    [T] Archive Type : zip
    [E] Include E-mail Messages : Un-read Only
    [I] Include File Attachments : Yes
    [D] Delete E-mail Automatically : Yes
    [F] Include New Files List : No
    [N] Include Index Files : No
    [C] Include Control Files : No
    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    I'll have to look into this further. :-)

    From what I've seen today, it's come through about 5 times. The last time was 11:25:22p MDT.

    Weird. I logged into Telnet with your CASTLERO account and created a QWK packet and there was no VOTING.DAT file. I logged in via ftp with your CASTLERO account and created (and downloaded) a QWK packet and again, no VOTING.DAT file:
    Viewing .ZIP: vert.qwk

    Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
    ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
    568 DeflatN 357 37.2% 11/11/2016 11:35p c7b1a170 --w---- HEADERS.DAT
    1408 DeflatN 771 45.3% 11/11/2016 11:35p 22d6add9 --w----
    MESSAGES.DAT

    Can you find this VOTING.DAT file and maybe delete it or rename it? And see if it gets recreated and what the new file's date/time stamp is? This is very curious.

    digital man

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  • From Black Panther@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 01:19:01 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Black Panther on Fri Nov 11 2016 23:38:19

    Weird. I logged into Telnet with your CASTLERO account and created a QWK pac and there was no VOTING.DAT file. I logged in via ftp with your CASTLERO account and created (and downloaded) a QWK packet and again, no VOTING.DAT file:
    Viewing .ZIP: vert.qwk

    Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
    ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
    568 DeflatN 357 37.2% 11/11/2016 11:35p c7b1a170 --w---- HEADERS.
    1408 DeflatN 771 45.3% 11/11/2016 11:35p 22d6add9 --w---- MESSAGES.DAT

    Can you find this VOTING.DAT file and maybe delete it or rename it? And see it gets recreated and what the new file's date/time stamp is? This is very curious.

    Ok, I found it in \sbbs\data\qnet\VERT.in\VOTING.DAT - modified 11/11/2016 11:24 PM. I'll delete it and see what happens.





    Black Panther
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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Lord Time on Sat Nov 12 07:22:50 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Lord Time to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:20 pm

    if you logon to vert. into your bbs qwk account
    (under Change Packet Configuration) you see this :

    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    Good Info to have. I figured it out, but others may need this info. Thanks for the reply.

    SysOp: C.G. Learn, AKA: DesotoFireflite
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  • From Knightmare@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 12:54:48 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Knightmare to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:07 am

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Fri Nov 11 2016 04:28 pm



    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

    Are you still?

    digital man



    That's a negative at this time, since you mentioned the issue on a previous post.


    I just got it again... 12:52PM EST - 11/12/16

    Also got a note to renew my BBS listing... Are the two conncted?

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Knightmare on Sat Nov 12 11:20:06 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Knightmare to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:54 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Knightmare to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:07 am

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Fri Nov 11 2016 04:28 pm



    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

    Are you still?

    I just got it again... 12:52PM EST - 11/12/16

    Can you copy and paste the message you're seeing? Can you find the VOTING.DAT file and check it's date/time and maybe its contents? Try renaming or deleting it and see if it keeps coming back.

    Also got a note to renew my BBS listing... Are the two conncted?

    Um... you got a note to renew on your own BBS or on Vertrauen? I don't know how they could be connected anyway.


    digital man

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 11:19:19 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:23:45

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    I've upgraded my Synchronet binaries, and I temporarily switched back to the built-in reader and upvoted this message. It doesn't seem to show voting results when viewing a message though. Is there another command key to view the voting results? Or are the results shown in a different way?

    Nightfox

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  • From Lord Time@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Sat Nov 12 06:16:47 2016
    Re: Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Lord Time to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:20 pm

    if you logon to vert. into your bbs qwk account
    (under Change Packet Configuration) you see this :

    [V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    Good Info to have.

    yep

    I figured it out,

    good

    but others may need this info.

    yep

    Thanks for the reply.

    your welcome :)


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 12:43:33 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 2016 11:19 am

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:23:45

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.

    And if you're running a recent development build (and you're using the built-in Synchronet message reader), hit 'V' now and you should be able to up-vote or down-vote this message. :-)

    I've upgraded my Synchronet binaries, and I temporarily switched back to the built-in reader and upvoted this message. It doesn't seem to show voting results when viewing a message though. Is there another command key to view the voting results? Or are the results shown in a different way?

    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your text.dat.

    digital man

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 14:07:51 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:43:33

    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your text.dat.

    Ah, I do have a custom message header, and I wasn't using those. I hadn't updated my text.dat either. Thanks.

    My sbbsctrl was crashing with the updated binaries, so I've reverted back for now. I'll try again with the updated binaries at some point.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 15:10:57 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Nov 12 2016 02:07 pm

    My sbbsctrl was crashing with the updated binaries, so I've reverted back for now. I'll try again with the updated binaries at some point.

    Yeah, I found VERT crashed this morning while importing votes from a QWKnet node (I didn't take note of who) - anyway, that bug is now fixed.

    digital man

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 07:50:13 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:43 pm


    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your text.dat.

    Ok, I understand the line in the text.dat, and I also get that I have a custom header and use the new @-codes UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, and SCORE, I will see the results, but How do I vote on a particular message after I update the BBS to the newest 3.17 nightly build. This voting thing is awesome, and I want it.

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  • From Knightmare@VERT to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 10:31:25 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Sat Nov 12 2016 11:20 am

    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

    Are you still?

    I just got it again... 12:52PM EST - 11/12/16

    Can you copy and paste the message you're seeing? Can you find the VOTING.DAT file and check it's date/time and maybe its contents? Try renaming or deleting it and see if it keeps coming back.

    Also got a note to renew my BBS listing... Are the two conncted?

    Um... you got a note to renew on your own BBS or on Vertrauen? I don't know how they could be connected anyway.


    File located in c:\sbbs\data\qnet\VERT.in\VOTING.DAT
    0 bytes

    Last updated 11/12/16


    Contents----------------------

    Contents----------------------

    ---
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 11:54:56 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 2016 07:50 am

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:43 pm


    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your text.dat.

    Ok, I understand the line in the text.dat, and I also get that I have a custom header and use the new @-codes UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, and SCORE, I will see the results, but How do I vote on a particular message after I update the BBS to the newest 3.17 nightly build. This voting thing is awesome, and I want it.

    Hit 'V' at the "Reading" prompt, then 'U' for up or 'D' for down-vote the message. Your BBS will then send the vote(s) to VERT in your next REP packet and get redistributed from there. Or at least, that's how it's *supposed* to work. :-)

    The poll creation/display/voting stuff is still pending.

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Knightmare on Sun Nov 13 11:55:35 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Knightmare to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 2016 10:31 am

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Sat Nov 12 2016 11:20 am

    Starting 11/09, I started getting these messages too...

    Are you still?

    I just got it again... 12:52PM EST - 11/12/16

    Can you copy and paste the message you're seeing? Can you find the VOTING.DAT file and check it's date/time and maybe its contents? Try renaming or deleting it and see if it keeps coming back.

    Also got a note to renew my BBS listing... Are the two conncted?

    Um... you got a note to renew on your own BBS or on Vertrauen? I don't know how they could be connected anyway.


    File located in c:\sbbs\data\qnet\VERT.in\VOTING.DAT
    0 bytes

    Last updated 11/12/16

    If you delete the file, does it come back?

    digital man

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 16:59:13 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:54 am

    Ok, I understand the line in the text.dat, and I also get that I have
    a custom header and use the new @-codes UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, and SCORE,
    I will see the results, but How do I vote on a particular message
    after I update the BBS to the newest 3.17 nightly build. This voting
    thing is awesome, and I want it.

    Hit 'V' at the "Reading" prompt, then 'U' for up or 'D' for down-vote the message. Your BBS will then send the vote(s) to VERT in your next REP packet and get redistributed from there. Or at least, that's how it's *supposed* to work. :-)

    Awesome, Thanks.

    The poll creation/display/voting stuff is still pending.

    I understand, I'm just excited, and trying to get my mind ready for it. As always, thanks

    SysOp: C.G. Learn, AKA: DesotoFireflite
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  • From Black Panther@VERT to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 15:25:28 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:55:35

    File located in c:\sbbs\data\qnet\VERT.in\VOTING.DAT
    0 bytes

    Last updated 11/12/16

    If you delete the file, does it come back?

    It hasn't come back on my system since I deleted it.

    Black Panther
    Sysop
    Castle Rock BBS

    ---
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Black Panther on Sun Nov 13 14:28:29 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Black Panther to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 2016 03:25 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:55:35

    File located in c:\sbbs\data\qnet\VERT.in\VOTING.DAT
    0 bytes

    Last updated 11/12/16

    If you delete the file, does it come back?

    It hasn't come back on my system since I deleted it.

    Ah, okay, good to know.

    digital man

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 20:31:55 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Sun Nov 13 2016 04:59 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:54 am

    Ok, I understand the line in the text.dat, and I also get that I have
    a custom header and use the new @-codes UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, and SCORE,
    I will see the results, but How do I vote on a particular message
    after I update the BBS to the newest 3.17 nightly build. This voting
    thing is awesome, and I want it.

    Hit 'V' at the "Reading" prompt, then 'U' for up or 'D' for down-vote the message. Your BBS will then send the vote(s) to VERT in your next REP packet and get redistributed from there. Or at least, that's how it's *supposed* to work. :-)

    Awesome, Thanks.

    The poll creation/display/voting stuff is still pending.

    I understand, I'm just excited, and trying to get my mind ready for it. As always, thanks

    And when I logged on just now, I saw this:
    On Sun Nov 13 2016 03:17 pm, in DOVE-Net Synchronet Discussion
    DesotoFireflite Up-voted your message: VOTING.DAT

    It's working! :-)

    digital man

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Mon Nov 14 07:33:38 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 2016 08:31 pm

    The poll creation/display/voting stuff is still pending.

    I understand, I'm just excited, and trying to get my mind ready for
    it. As always, thanks

    And when I logged on just now, I saw this:
    On Sun Nov 13 2016 03:17 pm, in DOVE-Net Synchronet Discussion DesotoFireflite Up-voted your message: VOTING.DAT

    It's working! :-)

    Yea, I know, it's awesome. I voted from your system just to try it out, and it's really cool (I hope you can still use that word these days LOL), I look forward to implementing here on Valhalla. I really like the way you header shows a special line calld MSG when someone votes on a message. I also noticed, and I may be wrong, the vote seems to follow the thread.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Mon Nov 14 12:04:39 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Mon Nov 14 2016 07:33 am

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 2016 08:31 pm

    The poll creation/display/voting stuff is still pending.

    I understand, I'm just excited, and trying to get my mind ready for
    it. As always, thanks

    And when I logged on just now, I saw this:
    On Sun Nov 13 2016 03:17 pm, in DOVE-Net Synchronet Discussion DesotoFireflite Up-voted your message: VOTING.DAT

    It's working! :-)

    Yea, I know, it's awesome. I voted from your system just to try it out, and it's really cool (I hope you can still use that word these days LOL), I look forward to implementing here on Valhalla. I really like the way you header shows a special line calld MSG when someone votes on a message. I also noticed, and I may be wrong, the vote seems to follow the thread.

    Votes are per-message, not per-thread. There were probably just more than one individual message that was voted on in that thread. I some point, I'll add a way to list the votes (who voted which way).

    digital man

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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Digital Man on Mon Nov 14 16:33:36 2016
    14 Nov 16 12:04, you wrote to DesotoFireflite:

    Yea, I know, it's awesome. I voted from your system just to try it out,
    and it's really cool (I hope you can still use that word these days
    LOL), I look forward to implementing here on Valhalla. I really like
    the way you header shows a special line calld MSG when someone votes on
    a message. I also noticed, and I may be wrong, the vote seems to follow
    the thread.

    Votes are per-message, not per-thread. There were probably just more
    than one individual message that was voted on in that thread. I some point, I'll add a way to list the votes (who voted which way).

    could this voting thing be why there have been a few blank posts from you and at least one other person on the fido side of the gateway? there was just your name and origin line, IIRC... i can post the control lines back to you if needed...

    )\/(ark

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to mark lewis on Mon Nov 14 14:47:32 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: mark lewis to Digital Man on Mon Nov 14 2016 04:33 pm


    14 Nov 16 12:04, you wrote to DesotoFireflite:

    Yea, I know, it's awesome. I voted from your system just to try it out,
    and it's really cool (I hope you can still use that word these days
    LOL), I look forward to implementing here on Valhalla. I really like
    the way you header shows a special line calld MSG when someone votes on
    a message. I also noticed, and I may be wrong, the vote seems to follow
    the thread.

    Votes are per-message, not per-thread. There were probably just more than one individual message that was voted on in that thread. I some point, I'll add a way to list the votes (who voted which way).

    could this voting thing be why there have been a few blank posts from you and at least one other person on the fido side of the gateway? there was just your name and origin line, IIRC... i can post the control lines back to you if needed...

    No, I guess an SBBSecho update is needed to filter out the votes after-all.
    :-(

    Another reason to use SBBSecho v3, folks.

    digital man

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  • From spacesst@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Mon Nov 14 19:56:48 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to All on Fri Nov 11 2016 07:42:09

    Just curious, I'm starting to get notifications of recieving a file called VOTING.DAT by QWK from VERT everyday now. Have I missed something? What program does this file associate with, or is it something in the testing phase. It sounds interesting. Thanks In Advance.

    Got the Same Thing from Couple of Days now !!

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  • From spacesst@VERT to Digital Man on Mon Nov 14 19:58:42 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:23:45

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.


    my :

    V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    and i still Receive

    ... Not one hundred percent efficient, of course.but nothing ever is.

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Nov 15 10:36:08 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Mon Nov 14 2016 12:04 pm

    Yea, I know, it's awesome. I voted from your system just to try it
    out, and it's really cool (I hope you can still use that word these
    days LOL), I look forward to implementing here on Valhalla. I really
    like the way you header shows a special line calld MSG when someone
    votes on a message. I also noticed, and I may be wrong, the vote seems
    to follow the thread.

    Votes are per-message, not per-thread. There were probably just more than one individual message that was voted on in that thread. I some point, I'll add a way to list the votes (who voted which way).

    Yeah, I figured the tread thing out when I replied to that message LOL. Sounds like you have a deffinite winner here with this.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to spacesst on Tue Nov 15 11:02:01 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: spacesst to Digital Man on Mon Nov 14 2016 07:58 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 12:23:45

    Yes, it's part of a new distributed voting thing I'm working on. You can turn it off at the QWK: prompt (it should be off by default), but if you're running a recent development (3.17) build and then send a REP packet to VERT, it'll get turned back on automatically.


    my :

    V] Include VOTING.DAT File : No

    and i still Receive

    If you delete the file (i.e. data/qnet/vert.in/votind.dat), does it come back?

    digital man

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Nov 15 15:36:34 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:54 am

    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a
    modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll
    need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to
    display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it
    should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when
    there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your
    text.dat.

    Ok, upgraded to the new development build this morning, voting seems to work locally ok here, and if I don''t use my custom msghdr.ans/asc file, the results show up fine in the text.dat header. But if I use my custom header I've created, and have been using for years it won''t show, even after adding the following line to the header:

    Positive: UPVOTES Negitive: DOWNVOTES Total: SCORE (I used the at symbol before and after each code as reqired, but left it off in this message so it would show)

    Could I have missed something in the update?

    SysOp: C.G. Learn, AKA: DesotoFireflite
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to DesotoFireflite on Tue Nov 15 14:09:59 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: DesotoFireflite to Digital Man on Tue Nov 15 2016 03:36 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:54 am

    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a
    modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll
    need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to
    display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it
    should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when
    there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your
    text.dat.

    Ok, upgraded to the new development build this morning, voting seems to work locally ok here, and if I don''t use my custom msghdr.ans/asc file, the results show up fine in the text.dat header. But if I use my custom header I've created, and have been using for years it won''t show, even after adding the following line to the header:

    Positive: UPVOTES Negitive: DOWNVOTES Total: SCORE (I used the at symbol before and after each code as reqired, but left it off in this message so it would show)

    Could I have missed something in the update?

    The full @-codes names are MSG_UPVOTES, MSG_DOWNVOTES, and MSG_SCORE.

    digital man

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Nov 15 17:54:19 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Tue Nov 15 2016 02:09 pm

    Ok, upgraded to the new development build this morning, voting seems
    to work locally ok here, and if I don''t use my custom msghdr.ans/asc
    file, the results show up fine in the text.dat header. But if I use my
    custom header I've created, and have been using for years it won''t
    show, even after adding the following line to the header:

    Positive: UPVOTES Negitive: DOWNVOTES Total: SCORE (I used the at
    symbol before and after each code as reqired, but left it off in this
    message so it would show)

    Could I have missed something in the update?

    The full @-codes names are MSG_UPVOTES, MSG_DOWNVOTES, and MSG_SCORE.

    OK, I'll give that a shot and let you know. Thanks for the fast reply.

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Nov 15 18:50:02 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Tue Nov 15 2016 02:09 pm

    Positive: UPVOTES Negitive: DOWNVOTES Total: SCORE (I used the at
    symbol before and after each code as reqired, but left it off in this
    message so it would show)

    Could I have missed something in the update?

    The full @-codes names are MSG_UPVOTES, MSG_DOWNVOTES, and MSG_SCORE.

    Works like a charm, Thanks. Can''t wait to see the other enhancements to this.

    SysOp: C.G. Learn, AKA: DesotoFireflite
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  • From Knightmare@VERT to Digital Man on Tue Nov 15 20:55:51 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Knightmare on Sun Nov 13 2016 11:55 am

    File located in c:\sbbs\data\qnet\VERT.in\VOTING.DAT
    0 bytes

    Last updated 11/12/16

    If you delete the file, does it come back?

    digital man
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    Let me delete it, I'll let you know.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Nov 19 19:12:02 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:43:33

    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your text.dat.

    I do have a custom message header. I tried putting @UPVOTES@, @DOWNVOTES@, and @SCORE@ in my header file, but Synchronet was displaying those literally rather than interpreting them. I tried updating my binaries to today's build to be sure, but it was still not interpreting those. I tried moving my custom header to Synchronet would use the default header, but it was still not displaying voting information for messages. I have updated my text.dat with the added MsgVotes line and others.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Sat Nov 19 19:46:23 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Nov 19 2016 07:12 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Nov 12 2016 12:43:33

    Do you have a custom message header (text/menu/msghdr.asc) or a modified text.dat? If you have a custom message header, you'll need to use the new UPVOTES, DOWNVOTES, or SCORE @-codes to display the voting results of a message. If you're not, then it should automatically use the new MsgVotes text.dat line (when there are votes) if even you don't have that line in your text.dat.

    I do have a custom message header. I tried putting @UPVOTES@, @DOWNVOTES@, and @SCORE@ in my header file, but Synchronet was displaying those literally rather than interpreting them. I tried updating my binaries to today's build to be sure, but it was still not interpreting those. I tried moving my custom header to Synchronet would use the default header, but it was still not displaying voting information for messages. I have updated my text.dat with the added MsgVotes line and others.

    Sorry, the actual @-code values are: MSG_UPVOTES, MSG_DOWNVOTES, and MSG_SCORE.

    digital man

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT to Nightfox on Sun Nov 20 07:44:22 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Nov 19 2016 07:12 pm

    I do have a custom message header. I tried putting @UPVOTES@, @DOWNVOTES@, and @SCORE@ in my header file, but Synchronet was displaying those literally rather than interpreting them. I tried updating my binaries to today's build to be sure, but it was still not interpreting those. I tried moving my custom header to Synchronet would use the default header, but it was still not displaying voting information for messages. I have updated my text.dat with the added MsgVotes line and others.

    The actual @-Codes for this are MSG_UPVOTES, MSG_DOWNVOTES, and MSG_SCORES. Hope this helps.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT to Digital Man on Sun Nov 20 14:11:10 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Nov 19 2016 19:46:23

    Sorry, the actual @-code values are: MSG_UPVOTES, MSG_DOWNVOTES, and MSG_SCORE.

    Those work. Thanks.

    Nightfox

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  • From K7elh@VERT/EYESTORM to Digital Man on Fri Dec 9 19:15:33 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Nov 11 2016 17:52:40

    Nobody has voted on this message? :-(
    digital man

    The "V" key doesn't work for me. I guess I have an old version. I did try!

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  • From Jon Justvig@VERT/STEPPING to K7elh on Fri Dec 9 20:55:06 2016
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: K7elh to Digital Man on Fri Dec 09 2016 07:15 pm

    K7elh,

    The "V" key doesn't work for me. I guess I have an old version. I did try!

    Best to update ASAP. The "V" command at the message prompt works well here. ---

  • From Eric Hutchins@VERT to Jon Justvig on Tue Jan 10 13:36:19 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Jon Justvig to K7elh on Fri Dec 09 2016 08:55 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: K7elh to Digital Man on Fri Dec 09 2016 07:15 pm
    K7elh,
    The "V" key doesn't work for me. I guess I have an old version. I did try!
    Best to update ASAP. The "V" command at the message prompt works well here.

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Eric Hutchins on Tue Jan 10 15:55:48 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Eric Hutchins to Jon Justvig on Tue Jan 10 2017 01:36 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Jon Justvig to K7elh on Fri Dec 09 2016 08:55 pm

    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: K7elh to Digital Man on Fri Dec 09 2016 07:15 pm
    K7elh,
    The "V" key doesn't work for me. I guess I have an old version. I did try!
    Best to update ASAP. The "V" command at the message prompt works well here.

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??

    v3.16c is the latest official release. The current development version is 3.17a and is built (from the current code in CVS) and archived for download daily (e.g. sbbs_dev.zip).

    digital man

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to Eric Hutchins on Tue Jan 10 18:59:33 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Eric Hutchins to Jon Justvig on Tue Jan 10 2017 13:36:19

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??

    3.16c is the most recent release. 3.17 is the version currently under development (which is available if you want to run it).

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  • From KK4QBN@VERT/KK4QBN to Eric Hutchins on Tue Jan 10 18:36:57 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Eric Hutchins to Jon Justvig on Tue Jan 10 2017 01:36 pm

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??

    That is the latest stable release, 3.17 is in development, and most sysops love to be test subjects.. :-)

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  • From Jon Justvig@VERT to Eric Hutchins on Wed Jan 11 00:04:00 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Eric Hutchins to Jon Justvig on Tue Jan 10 2017 01:36 pm

    Eric,

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??

    3.17 is in the beta stages. Don't have the URL handy, but you can find it on Vert (synchro.net).
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  • From K7elh@VERT/EYESTORM to Digital Man on Tue Jan 10 19:36:37 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Digital Man to Eric Hutchins on Tue Jan 10 2017 03:55 pm

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??

    v3.16c is the latest official release. The current development version is 3.17a and is built (from the current code in CVS) and archived for download daily (e.g. sbbs_dev.zip).
    digital man

    Oh! In that case, maybe I should go get it...


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  • From K7elh@VERT/EYESTORM to KK4QBN on Tue Jan 10 19:38:04 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: KK4QBN to Eric Hutchins on Tue Jan 10 2017 06:36 pm

    I thought 3.16c was the latest update??
    That is the latest stable release, 3.17 is in development, and most sysops love to be test subjects.. :-)
    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

    I don't mind usually, but I just returned to the BBS world after a 25 year hiatus. Maybe I should take it slow... Lol...


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  • From KK4QBN@VERT/KK4QBN to K7elh on Wed Jan 11 12:30:58 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: K7elh to KK4QBN on Tue Jan 10 2017 07:38 pm

    I don't mind usually, but I just returned to the BBS world after a 25 year hiatus. Maybe I should take it slow... Lol...


    if you already installed 3.16 and have it stable, going to 3.17 under windows is just as simple as reading some instructions and copying a few binaries over, and some stuff in the CTRL dir too.. DM has it all nice and zipped up on a daily basis.. now installing the new stuff like ecweb4, etc is a bit more tough (well it has give me a few issues but not many) but its a cakewalk.. pretty much..

    (waiting for something to crash on my BBS since i said that)

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to all on Wed Jan 11 21:56:34 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: KK4QBN to K7elh on Wed Jan 11 2017 12:30 pm


    I don't mind usually, but I just returned to the BBS world after a 25 year hiatus. Maybe I should take it slow... Lol...


    if you already installed 3.16 and have it stable, going to 3.17 under windows is just as simple as reading some instructions and copying a few binaries over, and some stuff in the CTRL dir too.. DM has it all nice and



    BACKUP FIRST!
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  • From KK4QBN@VERT/KK4QBN to Mro on Thu Jan 12 02:07:57 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Mro to all on Wed Jan 11 2017 09:56 pm

    if you already installed 3.16 and have it stable, going to 3.17 under
    windows is just as simple as reading some instructions and copying a
    few binaries over, and some stuff in the CTRL dir too.. DM has it all
    nice and



    BACKUP FIRST!

    Yeah, that too... but I would *hope* that would be something one would just naturally do.

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  • From K7elh@VERT/EYESTORM to KK4QBN on Wed Jan 11 20:03:58 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: KK4QBN to K7elh on Wed Jan 11 2017 12:30 pm

    if you already installed 3.16 and have it stable, going to 3.17 under windows is just as simple as reading some instructions and copying a few binaries over, and some stuff in the CTRL dir too.. DM has it all nice and zipped up on a daily basis.. now installing the new stuff like ecweb4, etc is a bit more tough (well it has give me a few issues but not many) but its a cakewalk.. pretty much..

    Maybe I'll give it a shot...

    (waiting for something to crash on my BBS since i said that)
    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

    Lol!!!



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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to KK4QBN on Thu Jan 12 23:47:52 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: KK4QBN to Mro on Thu Jan 12 2017 02:07 am


    BACKUP FIRST!

    Yeah, that too... but I would *hope* that would be something one would just naturally do.



    for some reason most sysops do NOT backup and end up 'losing it all in a crash' frequently.
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  • From KK4QBN@VERT/KK4QBN to Mro on Fri Jan 13 08:46:03 2017
    Re: VOTING.DAT
    By: Mro to KK4QBN on Thu Jan 12 2017 11:47 pm

    Yeah, that too... but I would *hope* that would be something one would
    just naturally do.

    for some reason most sysops do NOT backup and end up 'losing it all in a crash' frequently.

    I was guilty of that *once* now I have about 10 backups sitting here, so if I need something I discarded from a previous date, I'm good.

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