Subj : Re: Modem/Dialup options for Mystic
To   : Zip
From : dejavu
Date : Wed Jun 17 2020 09:55:41

On 17 Jun 2020, Zip said the following...
 
 Zi> Hello dejavu!
 Zi> 
 Zi> On 16 Jun 2020, dejavu said the following...
 Zi>  de> It sounds like mgetty is working out well for you, however prompting 
 Zi>  de> a login prompt is going to be a deal breaker for me.  I would like th
 Zi> 
 Zi> Yes, it's a big disadvantage...
 Zi> 
 Zi>  de> Still question, but have you ever attempted to see if the user
 Zi>  de> authentication could be done in the background?  As long as that's
 Zi>  de> possible I'm sure mgetty would be a great solution.
 Zi> 
 Zi> I have looked through the options for it but so far haven't found
 Zi> anything there. Perhaps if one could insert something between it and the
 Zi> modem, auto-entering the username or so...
 Zi> 
 Zi> I'll let you know if I come up with something!
 Zi> 

Awesome!  I will test it out one evening this week.  Question for you, I
understand when the Internet came around and telnet was introduced Mystic
must have decided to remove the dial-up modem support code, can't enough of
us request we would like that code added back in to support dial up modem, as
I know myself and many others are trying to make them have a vintage come
back in the vintage computing arena, it's causing everyone to use other BBS
packages other than Mystic.  

Other folks are chosing to use Synronet with 'Sexpots' as the front end
dialer.  I'm also seeing other's use Front door and many others.

I'd love to hear yours and everyone else's feedback.  I understand dialup
modems are a thing of the past, however by alienating the vintage computer
industry is just plain out not smart, every from that era are the original
BBS SysOp's from the 80's and 90's, we need native dialup support in Mystic...

I've come to like Mystic and I've put a ton of work into my BBS so far,
however without dialup support it doesn't meet my initial use case to support
low speed dialup modems, teletypes, and packet radio.  I might as well go back
to PCBoard.

Comments, suggestions?

  Zi> Best regards 
Zi> Zip  Zi> 
 Zi> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/04/21 (Linux/64)
 Zi>  * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

-Dejavu

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/32)
 * Origin: 1984 BBS [1984bbs.net] Washington, DC (21:3/114)

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