Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : tenser
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Apr 13 2022 07:29:29

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: tenser to boraxman on Wed Apr 13 2022 03:54 am

 > Fixating on the captive BBS experience misses the forest for
 > the trees.  The power and flexibility of what you get out of a
 > timesharing system is much greater than what you get out of
 > any BBS package.  Moreover, it can be customized by the user
 > in a way that a BBS never can, and systems can be federated
 > using open protocols; don't like the default message editor?
 > No problem; just use a different one.

I often think this myself.

But then BBS packages offer convenience for the administrator, that he can
deploy a "thing" with somehow automated user management which won't let the
users access arbitrary resources within the machine.

I can build a telnet interface capable of letting people connect and send
messages back and forth using traditional Unix utilities, but then I also have
to set permissions for the system users involved and probably build some
unveil() and pledge() wrappers.

A BBS package is ready to go. A portal you have to deploy takes time.

It sounds as a fun project though.

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