Subj : BBS over web-based ??
To   : Time Warrior
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 09:41 am

  Re: BBS over web-based ??
  By: Time Warrior to Sam Alexander on Thu Sep 22 2005 09:11 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > Synchronet has a web server and web interface. Most of the primary Synchrone
 > / BBS Type features are available and full functional within the WWW
 > environment.
 > 
 > Just for example:
 > 
 > Google Groups: Message areas can be accessed and used via WWW and with the
 > Listserv function can also be sent to invididual users by way of email. Just
 > like Yahoo Groups, only no spam or ads.
 > 
 > X-Chat: Not sure what this is exactly but I'm guessing some sort of web base
 > chat. Using PJIRC to connect to The Synchronet IRC Daemon, web based chat vi
 > Synchronet is more than possible.
 > 
 > Only unlike Google Groups or X-Chat, email can be downloaded directly via
 > POP3, forums can be pulled by users or other Sysops via NNTP / QWK / FTN / o
 > read online via telnet. Chat can also be accessed via telnet as to not deal
 > with the bloat of a client if system resources aren't as resourceful as you'
 > like them to be on your PC.
 > 
 > Email can also be forwarded from the BBS to any other existing email account
 > on the Internet.
 > 
 > So, whats the problem again? :-)
 > 
 >  > For example, instead of messing with a newsreader or Google Groups, I'm
 >  > adding groups to my BBS as needed.
 > 
 > Using utilities like Internet Rex, you can also (permission of the list owne
 > required) do a POP3 / SMTP gate from any listserv on the internet into your
 > BBS.
 > 
 >  > Also I'm rather used to irssi and bitchx
 >  > for IRC, so I'm getting those setup on the BBS for me to use.  If I can u
 > 
 >  Synchronet has a *built in* telnet client.
 > 

Hi TW,

Actually my goal is to AVOID web-based and GUI apps and instead use the BBS 
for such tasks.  Keeping everything on the BBS gives me not only a one-stop 
place for all my activies but also gives me the awesome features of the BBS 
:)  This might be way over-nerdy or weird, but ideally I'd love to setup an 
older computer, whether it be an old laptop or something with MS-DOS, Telix, 
and a serial connection to my headless BBS and go from there.  Even just 
installing Linux on my old Dell Inspiron and using SyncTerm would make me 
happy.  Anything but GUI.

I've used the WWW for so long it's gotten almost bothersome.  I write web 
code all day, I look at web resources at work and write stuff for MS 
Sharepoint Portal Server, plus spend so much time in MS SQL that pulling 
away from the GUI and getting back to Command Line BBSing is a breath of 
fresh air.  For me it's more then nostalgia, it's keeping my interests and 
computer hobby alive.

Sam

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