Subj : NNTP(S) via Thunderbi
To   : Gamgee
From : Accession
Date : Sat Nov 08 2025 07:15:56

Hey Gamgee!

On Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:15:52 -0600, you wrote:

 > Yes, understood.  The "put" direction makes good sense to me.  I have a
 > question about the "get" side though - What causes the BBS to know to
 > pack up all the new messages into a QWK packet though?  Does just the
 > act of requesting <BBSID>.qwk cause that to happen?  I was thinking I'd
 > have to somehow "tell" the BBS to create the new QWK packet, and *then*
 > grab it with wget/ftp.

I think either when you connect or when there is a new message(s), Synchronet creates the QWK packet and puts it in that location automatically. I'm not sure on exactly how it works, but it's there every time I grab it, and it's an updated packet each time.

Rob would have to explain that better, but I'll just call it 'magic'. :)

 > Appreciate you taking the time to send/explain this!  Thanks.

Of course!

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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 # Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (723:1/1)
 ￭ Synchronet ￭ _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin)
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

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