Subj : Talisman Bridge
To   : All
From : apam
Date : Tue Dec 13 2022 03:58 pm

Hi

Yesterday and Today I've been working on a bridge that can bridge two
message bases in talisman.

In theory the message bases can be from any net type (or local) and to
test I've been bridging HPY_TST to a special WWIV network I created.

So you could bridge:

FTN <-> WWIVNET
FTN <-> QWK
QWK <-> WWIVNET

etc.

Actually I think i forgot to add the support for QWK. but it's really
just making a specific tagline style, at present LOCAL can be used in
place of QWK.

You can have as many bridges as you want, so you could also bridge
between FTN, QWK and WWIVNET. by using two bridges.

A couple of things to note, it needs two seperate message bases to work,
ie, I have HappynetWWIV and HappynetFTN and both of those have a HPY_TST.

The other thing is, it doesn't add new kludges (it strips seenbys / path,
so FTN <-> FTN will work, but if a message originates on WWIVnet and gets
bridged to say FSXnet, it wont magically have FTN kludges like TZUTC,
MSGID etc.

Not sure how useful this is to others, especially with WWIV having native
FTN these days.

Andrew

PS if you're on HappyNet, sorry about all the dupes and testing ;)



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