Subj : Re: IcyBoard 0.1.6 release
To   : Accession
From : Omnibrain
Date : Thu Oct 16 2025 09:41 pm


Ac> Would love to not have this restriction at all. Using all uppercase in
Ac> this day and age is terrible. ;)

It's something I can look at. IcyBoard is not about copying PCBoard 1:1 just
to be PCBoard compatible. I want to extend/fix PCBoard as well.

But I need to start from PCBoard - in case of user names it can be difficult
because PPEs are assuming the uppercase names and would need adjustments
when they compare names.

I need to look at that. I'm not really free to change anything. Like the
passwords - had to do 1-2 hacks to make hashing possible and even then there
is a small chance that I broke something                 

 Ac> After testing again this time around:
 Ac>
 Ac> "V" - doesn't do anything
 Ac> "LANG" - doesn't do anything
 Ac> "WHO" - doesn't do anything
 Ac>
 Ac> "USER" - A bit more on this. I did not have a "Real Name" set, as I was
 Ac> only using aliases. So it originally only displayed my location and last
 Ac> on. Once I set a real name, it displays that. Maybe I can change that in
 Ac> mkpcbtxt (or not if the next paragraph is the best way to handle what
 Ac> I'm trying to do, then I wouldn't have to do anything here).
 Ac>
 
 I don't think it's possible only using aliases - how did you do that?
 Remove real names in the sysmanager?

 - Fixed alias display in 'who' there was a setting I didn't use for it.
 
 Which "Real Name" setting do you mean? The one in sysop information is 
 just for the sysop.

Not sure about the commands - can you zip me the installation/config maybe I can find something. There are security settings that could prevent them from working.

 Ac>
 Ac> With this in mind, what would be the best way to eliminate real names
 Ac> and just use an alias that could be more than one word? I see the "What
 Ac> is your first name" prompt allows more than one word, so should I use
 Ac> that, while somehow eliminating the display/use of the "What is your
 Ac> last name" prompt and then just not allowing aliases? I think this is
 Ac> what I did with my PCBoard setup, but if there's a better way, I'd be
 Ac> glad to hear it.
 Ac>
 
 There is always the same answer to such questions: Use a PPE.
 In my test BBS I use PNAlogin.
 
 There is no way to eliminate "real names". Forget about aliases that feature in
 PCBoard is crap.
 It's not a replacement for real names.
 
 Ac> Seems PCBoard has always put the "alias" category as a secondary, not so
 Ac> visable to the public, option.
 Ac>

Y - and worse - aliases are a by conference setting.


 Ac> - I just realized "City" is listed twice, also.
 
 There are 2 separate city fields in the user records. I assume that they rework
ed the address at some point.
  
 Ac> - I can not set my birthday. If I save and exit, and then go back in it
 Ac> displays 01-01-00.
 Ac> - Reg Ex Date seems to also be set permanently to 01-01-00.

Date editor is not implemented atm. Need to work on that.

 Ac> Finally, what is an accounting file? My logs say it is not found, however i
t is
 Ac> not even enabled, nor is there any accounting files specified in icbsetup.

Removed the error message if it's disabled. It's ok not to have it. icbsetup now
 creates the files. 
Accounting is the idea to charge users for activities of some sort. So let's say
 to introduce
an upload/download ratio.

ATM it's unused and not very well thought out in PCBoard - for example you can c
harge for messages written - lol.
And it conflicts a bit with the limits because you can charge for time as well. 
Maybe the idea was to charge money.

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