Subj : Version 4 Requests...
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 06:07 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: Version 4 Requests...
  By: Time Warrior to All on Thu Aug 25 2005 04:11 am

 > With SEXYZ, version 4 and other advancements.... I have a few requests and I
 > am definately not alone in them. I've spoken with a few other Sysops who als
 > agree. If you can't do this by v4 thats fine, I know you've got alot on
 > your plate, Rob. However in my opinion and the opinions of at least a couple
 > other Sysops, these things would be good to have...

 > #1 - Option to use "Long Name" as opposed to "Internal Code" for FTP File
 > Areas. (as it stands, you connect with an FTP client and all the directory
 > names are short and use the Internal Code)

 > #2 - FTP Resume. The user who initiated the upload should have the access to
 > resume / delete / alter the exsisting file should the transfer for some
 > reason get shitcanned. The current lack of this ability has resulted in
 > courupted partly uploaded files and / or the sysop needing to manually delet
 > the file so the user can start the transfer all over again.

 > #3 - Access permitting, the ability to create sub directories via FTP within
 > file areas. Of course this wouldn't show up via telnet but thats why this is
 > a request re: the ftp ability and not telnet :-)

 > #4 - The ability to toggle on or off (user and / or Sysop toggle) public CC.
 > When the user saves a message, the BBS will ask "Would you like to Carbon
 > Copy this message to another area or user?" but it will only ask if the Syso
 > has it enabled AND the user has this ability toggled on in his or her accoun
 > settings. Also, a header that says:

 > ** This message was crossposted from: LongName Description of original area

 > #5 - The ability to toggle on or off (user and / or Sysop toggle) which
 > editor you want to use when you reply to or post a new message. It would lis
 > it the same way the account config does but would not save the settings. It
 > would only use it for that post. For example, to edit my signature my full
 > screen editor doesn't communicate righr with Synchronet for some reason to d
 > this, so I need to switch to line editor. Or when you need to upload
 > something to an area in Raw Input Mode you also need the line editor for tha
 > as well. Not to mention when you hit "M" to mail yourself (or someone else)
 > copy of a post, a FSE puts the ">" marks and parses the text. If the FSE
 > could be made to not do that when forwarding a post like that -- then the
 > ability to "Choose" your editor would be cool. To not make this feature
 > annoying, a prompt like:

 > Please (S)elect which editor to use or [ENTER] for User Default:

This seemed to go unnoticed by you and I know your a busy guy, so I made it 
more direct. :-)

Even though I pull this via nntp, thankfully Tracker1 corrected my line of 
thinking quite some time ago. I *used* to think NNTP didn't support "to" 
fields when really it's the CLIENT that doesn't support it for reasons 
unknown and that NNTP itself supports "to fields" just fine and dandy! :-)

Now if only Synchronet could append custom footers to the very end of NNTP 
Messages to replace the current NNTP Gate Tag. Then I could emulate an FTN 
Origin line and pretend the FTN Packet Format doesn't exist unles a non-Synch 
BBS wants a feed for something. lol

Even if people don't wanna emulate that a per message area footer would be 
pretty nice for a variety of uses.

Hell an "inbound" append of this nature would be cool too. Like for example, 
PHPbb with newsync allows PHPbb to carry echomail via NNTP. However being 
purely web based, it doesn't append any tags to it outbound messages at all. 
So it would be cool to be able to do it on behalf of that website.

For example:

 * Origin: So-n-such PHPbb Site - http://www.my-forums.ext

I've always liked qwk tags, origin lines, etc... because they well, ya know, 
let ya know where the message originated from, which i've always found to be 
useful.

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