Subj : Re: Blam BBS List question
To   : stizzed
From : The Godfather
Date : Wed May 27 2020 09:32:37

 st> We must be very careful when deciding upon a port and understand the
 st> difference between well-known, registered, dynamic, private and
 st> ephemeral ports.  The reasons we use non-standard ports with 5 digits is
 st> to stay well away from ports that are used by other applications.  It
 st> would not be best practice to use 4-digit ports.  What problem is
 st> addressed by doing so?
 st> 

The port you helped me set up is working just fine.  The only issue, to your
point, is the National BBS List.  Or whatever its called online ... I forget
at the moment,  I have a 3 year old talking in my ear :)  When I was port 23,
they must have scanned me, took a screen shot of my login screen, and threw
it up on the listing.  I emailed them to have them change the port and got an
instant reply stating it had been updated, and I was given ADMIN rights to
the Undergrounds page.  I went to test their embedded telnet client, and it
spit an error stating I needed to be white listed(?)  In any case, I emailed
the person again, and was told he'd have to send it off to the owner to have
it fixed, and that he was not used to seeing telnet ports with that high of
numbers.  I left it at that and to your point, am waiting.

 st> Im not particularly good at).  The ideas discussed here regarding the
 st> inclusion of telnet ports in nodelists will do no good unless the
 st> software used to connect to the bbs knows about them and uses them.
 st> Otherwise, its just another way to advertise.  Something that I
 st> personally welcome but do not see happening anytime soon.
 st> 

So the mod GY-BLAM .. latest version, includes a nodelist.mpl that pulls from
your nodelist and adds those BBS's to a list.  GY-BLAM allows you to create
as many categories as you like:  "Godfathers Favorite BBS's," "FSXnet BBS's,"
etc.... you can then telnet to those BBS's.  Now ... I don't know how it's
doing it .... like I said, 90% of the time I'm finding that if the telnet
port is not 23, the nodelist feature does  not appear to work via telneting,
and then at that point it's advertising.  However I found a few that it does
seem to work on.  I don't know how they are doing so.. so posted the
question. 

I get that the nodelist is used for mailing and not human traffic now ..
however the downside I see to using a script to pull nodelists into a BBSlist
Script is that if the selected BBS a user calls to telnet out to does not
connect ... the user may be inclined to believe the BBS is down, negating the
benefit of advertising.

Anyway, the rest is over my head at this point as to the flags used, etc...
within the rest of the conversation.  For that, i'm sipping coffee or beers
and absorbing the learning.  If it gets figured out, awesome!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
 * Origin: The Underground [@] theunderground.us:10023 <-port (21:1/165)

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