Subj : BBS over web-based ??
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Time Warrior
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 05:02 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Sam Alexander
  Re: BBS over web-based ??
  By: Sam Alexander to Time Warrior on Thu Sep 22 2005 03:10 pm

 > To: Time Warrior
 > 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 Synchr / 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 th
 >  > Listserv function can also be sent to invididual users by way of email. J
 >  > like Yahoo Groups, only no spam or ads.

 >  > X-Chat: Not sure what this is exactly but I'm guessing some sort of web b
 >  > chat. Using PJIRC to connect to The Synchronet IRC Daemon, web based chat
 >  > 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
 >  > read online via telnet. Chat can also be accessed via telnet as to not de
 >  > with the bloat of a client if system resources aren't as resourceful as y
 >  > like them to be on your PC.

 >  > Email can also be forwarded from the BBS to any other existing email acco
 >  > on the Internet.

 >  > So, whats the problem again? :-)

 >  >  > For example, instead of messing with a newsreader or Google Groups, I'
 >  >  > adding groups to my BBS as needed.

 >  > Using utilities like Internet Rex, you can also (permission of the list o
 >  > required) do a POP3 / SMTP gate from any listserv on the internet into yo
 >  > 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 ca

 >  > 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.

I agree. However, some evils are nessesary to draw in fresh blood. We won't 
live forever. Would you rather this community die with our generation?

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