Subj : Low level BBS tech
To   : All
From : hollowone
Date : Sat Dec 02 2023 02:18 pm

Hi,

I'm here for few years already as BBS consumer. I recognize various BBS server software used by you SYSOPS in the context of different User Experience and general Look and Feel, including your own unique customizations, if there are any.

I also checked some deep dive experience how it could be to manage Mystic, Enigma, Synchronet boards by trying to install one myself in a non-production environment, if I can say so.

This is still pre-packaged and mostly focused on content management, user management and rights management perspective.

Now I'm becoming curious about more lower level understanding of underlying tech stack that BBS world represents.


First pick is ECHO and mail/message sharing system present here.

I understand that there are some protocols and links between instances or servers that can communicate to share messages between boards, approve some changes (like I experienced on 20-4-BEERS that I can edit my message already posted to a local board or FTN).. There seem to be a lot of tech contracts defined by standards that are not easy to find as this is legacy tech... 

Can somebody point me to starters if I wanted to understand low-level specs related to message transfering/sharing protocols used by BBSes, in more a guided tutorial way?

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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