Subj : Mystic BBS To : Michael Grant From : Carl Austin Bennett Date : Fri May 18 2001 03:00 pm CAB> The MSGIDs are 100% correct. James fixed that one, Michael. MG> Good... maybe now Dale won't have to stay up late reading my Mystic BBS MG> messages that were getting caught in his "neat and stricter" traps before. I am sure you will find another excuse to make him lose some sleep, Michael. MG> Although written from scratch, Mystic was largely structured around MG> Renegade BBS. Renegade was originally a hack of Telegard; and all MG> also similar structure to Remote Access. Unlike Maxim00se, which was created as an Opus look-alike. Pity that Opus/Maximus are not penguin-aware. MG> I liked Maximus a lot, but sadly it got left too far behind. Had Scott MG> Dudley been able to continue it's development, I feel it could have been o MG> one of the premier packages today; it certainly could have given Wildcat! MG> a run for it's money in the Telnet/Web interface arena. Wildrat! is of no use to me if it won't run on this platform. Maxim00se is still ahead of Mystic in many ways, but having to leave a second machine running os/2 (with the vmodem drivers) just for Maxim00se/2 takes up far too much extra space in the swamp. CAB> All that waiting with bated breath for a Maximoose/LNX gives a moose CAB> is a strong need for Listerm00se, the mouthwash for the modern moose. MG> Nothing worse than a Moose with baited breath.. GRONK! ....except perhaps a whale with fishbreath. CAB> I was looking mostly for a way to keep my existing Squish bases after CAB> migrating to Linux; MG> Yeah, I've done /way/ more customization to my Mystic package than you MG> have. I put in a lot of hours getting it the way I wanted it even before MG> I dropped Maximus. If you're running a non-Linux system, there wouldn't be quite the same need to migrate away from Maxim00se, I suppose. CAB> Husky makes a good tosser and a sysop message editor, but a Squish CAB> aware non-commercial BBS package under Linux is a very rare find indeed MG> I know; I looked around before, the last time I ran Linux. Mystic/LNX was MG> still in the early testing phase then. The lack of good BBS packages was MG> the main factor in my dropping Linux at the time. Linux otherwise makes a good server; it has all the Internet and LAN support a m00se could ever need, including FTP, Web and telnet servers included as part of the distributions, and supports PPPoE and IP masquerading quite well. When I first started looking into this in 1999, the BBS menus themselves were the one key missing item; choices were limited to the sunsite stuff (outdated and none of it Squish-aware), ifmail (to gate *everything* to NNTP and use a menu system like alexia to call tin/pine/elm) or BBBS (costly). MG> I can live with a 5000 message limit per base. Some can't, I suppose... There are only a few bases here that exceed that limit. CAB> In any case the MOOSEID is up there between the antlers of each moosage CAB> but REPLY is still missing for SquishyBog critters. Still, it's always CAB> to have MOOSEID to avoid being just another anonymoose swamp critter. MG> And to avoid the moosage-hunter's traps... I've seen some of what gets through with just a warning... including some Hunter in Windsor sneaking past disguised as a Koon (1:18/140) in one moosage with an oddball origin line. As a Koon's a rather small critter, this is odd. MG> Around late July, August, there might be yet one more Mystic BBS available MG> online via telnet... ;) Gronk farther and louder, eh? Beauty! --- Mystic BBS v1.07.3 (Linux) * Origin: Pause-Caf‚ 1-613-549-5599 telnet://cafe.dyndns.org (1:249/116) .