Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Tue Apr 12 2022 03:39:36

On 07 Apr 2022 at 11:08p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo> I think it is yes, at least from my experience.  I used mystic, and it
 bo> was dead simple to get running.  Configuration was a little harder, but
 bo> think, you get chat, message board and file exchange all out of the box.

Really?  Most Unix/Linux distros come with all of that
stuff out of the box, or easily installable -- even by
the local package system.  Ntalkd, or a small ircd,
newts or even a small NNTP server, and sftp are trivial.

Lots of systems even have nice clients for all of the
above.

I think that people are enamored of the captive interface
provided by most BBS packages, but it's not necessary and
for many things gets in the way.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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