Subj : Synch & phpBB?
To   : Chickenhead
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jun 29 2005 12:08 pm

  Re: Synch & phpBB?
  By: Chickenhead to Digital Man on Wed Jun 29 2005 06:16 am

 >   Re: Synch & phpBB?
 >   By: Digital Man to Chickenhead on Tue Jun 28 2005 02:11 pm
 > 
 >  >   Re: Synch & phpBB?
 >  >   By: Chickenhead to All on Tue Jun 28 2005 06:53 am
 >  >
 >  >  > Hi Folks:
 >  >  >
 >  >  > I'm in the process of putting together a Synchronet BBS.  My co-conspi
 >  >  > unfortunately favors phpBB over Synchronet's current web interface.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > I understand that it may be possible to link the two using something c
 >  >  > NewsSynch (a phpBB module that exports a phpBB over NNTP).  Has anyone
 >  >  > this?  Does it work okay?
 >  >
 >  > If you configure it to use your Synchronet NNTP service, it should work.
 >  >
 > 
 > Great, that's what I was planning to do.
 > 
 >  >  > What would be NICE would be a phpBB module that talks QWK..but I doubt
 >  >  > creature exists...
 >  >
 >  > NNTP would actually be better.
 > 
 > Is there a reason for that? 

QWK is a lot more complex.

 > Message size or something? 

QWK messages have limited subject/to/from string lengths, but that's not the
primary reason. It's just a lot more, unnecessarily complex, for historical
reasons.

                                                  digital man

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