--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00003Date: 11/29/97 From: TERRY CAIRNS Time: 06:37am \/To: ANKUR GUPTA (Read 1 times) Subj: Twit Alert AG> Well i tried that, but dunno why they keep making false id's and try and AG> get in. Instead of deleting and purging, simply better to add a key and AG> next time they log on, wammo. Even if you add a key they can just log back on under another name that doesn't have the key!!! With my system I have EVERYTHING unaccessable to new users until they go through the Callback Verifier!!! Once they have validated themselves the number can't be used for duplicate accounts and if they get banned from the system they can use all the other names they want the callback will not validate them because the number has already been validated!!! Since they can't access anything but Feedback to the sysop and the Callback Verifier won't give them access to the rest of the system, they simply give up and don't call back!!! :) --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: T.A.P.P.S. Music BBS (416)741-2432 (1:2424/307) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00004Date: 11/28/97 From: STEWART HONSBERGER Time: 01:29pm \/To: ANKUR GUPTA (Read 1 times) Subj: Twit Alert :-: Quoting a message dated 26 Nov 97 09:42:49 :-: :-: When Ankur Gupta said this to Everyone :-: :-: about "Twit Alert" :-: AG> I have a couple of guys who I have banned from the bbs. Now at AG> present their security level is Transient and the bbs hangs up AG> on them as a hidden caller. I would like to have a system AG> whereas the board displays a message to them and then hangs up AG> in their faces. Is this possible ? Take away the hidden flag and make the "LoginFile" display a .BBS file with the stuff you want to tell 'em, and add a few (several) pauses's to the end and a HANGUP token.. Also be sure to add [ckoff] at the top.. Here's my LOCKOUT.MEC file; [ckoff] [white]You no longer have access to this BBS. This could be for one of a number of reasons; [repeatseq 2 right 17][lightblue]1. [gray]You broke the rules of this BBS. [repeatseq 2 right 17][lightblue]2. [gray]You pissed of the sysop. [repeatseq 2 right 17][lightblue]3. [gray]The sysop simply does not like ou. [repeatseq 2 right 17][lightblue]4. [gray]Your name is [realname]. [pause pause pause pause pause pause pause pause pause pause hangup] As you can see, it shows their real name, which will make most users think ou went out of your way to include them in this "special" file.. :> Blackdeath, E-Mail - blackdeath@tinys.oix.com ... If facts do not conform to the theory, dispose of them. -!- Tag-O-Matic V.13 [16744 Taglines] [Quoted 12%] --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Just Another Point... (1:229/600.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00005Date: 11/28/97 From: PATRICK MCCULLOUGH Time: 07:36pm \/To: CASEY TOMPKINS (Read 1 times) Subj: max freezes my system Casey Tompkins wrote in a message to Patrick McCullough: CT> Patrick McCullough wrote in a message to Dennis Faas: PM> Could be a memory problem with Win95. Try setting the pif PM> to "protect conventional memory." CT> Ahem. Not "a problem with Win95", unless he messed about rather a CT> bit with the default settings under '95. ;) Or the OS changed them itself. Look, I detect your impending OS snobbery, so don't even _start_ down that road. I happen to LIKE Win95. But it's not perfect. Win95 ran Max, Squish, Bink, and everything else just fine on my system for more than six months, right up until it suddenly decided to change that one setting, quite all by itself, and break Squish among other things. Oh sure, perhaps *I* screwed it up somehow... I could believe that if it hadn't happened to other people in exactly the same way, all by itself. Ask Robby Dittmann about the time it did the same thing to him. There's something Win95 just doesn't like about Squish.exe in particular. So since this has happened to other people, either something we do by accident causes it, or the OS does it all by itself for no obvious reason. Since the OS does _other_ things on its own and assumes changes are needed all by itself, and I know I changed nothing, that is MY interpretation of what happened. YMMV. CT> The only change I ever needed to make was to not allow the window to CT> be closed: Properties/Misc/Termination: check the box "Warn if still That's all? What about Idle Sensitivity? CT> active". Aside from that, my Bink/Max system runs very well under CT> the default MS-DOS icon settings. FWIW, the default for MS-DOS icon CT> under '95 is DPMI "Auto"... Wait. It was like that here too, until it suddenly wasn't one morning. :) Now it's working fine again. How long that lasts is up the whims of the OS. I know my configs are sound. Patrick --- timEd 1.10 * Origin: Layzner SPT-LZ-00X (1:133/1024) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00006Date: 11/28/97 From: LARRY EVANS Time: 03:27pm \/To: GERRY MILLRISE (Read 1 times) Subj: Looking for Gerry Millrise wrote in a message to Larry Evans: LE> seems to meet with widespread approval. I guess I'm tossing LE> the hat around for some more ideas here. I will try the LE> latest StarBar as well, but for now am back to the standard LE> file and message area listing method as divisions. GM> I am currently using Starbar v2.4 and it works beautifully. If you GM> are using a different version try this one. My users all rant and GM> rave about it and i couldnt see myself removing it. I have yet to GM> have a crash or major problem with it (see note in Mecca echo). I GM> also use Stararea v1.2, great for moving around the areas (both GM> message and file). GM> I run a multi-node DOS based system with Max 3.01. Hope this GM> helped. I also run multinode, similar setup as you, but I was running StarArea and Starbar...it just went kaflooey one day, care to share your setups? Adios for now, Lightnin' Lar (larry@fidogate.com) --- timEd/2 1.10 * Origin: Tesla's Tower/Spokane HUB/ftp.fidogate.com (1:346/49) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00007Date: 11/28/97 From: LARRY EVANS Time: 03:28pm \/To: GARY GILMORE (Read 1 times) Subj: Twit Alert Gary Gilmore wrote in a message to Ankur Gupta: AG> on them as a hidden caller. I would like to have a system AG> whereas the board displays a message to them and then hangs up AG> in their faces. Is this possible ? GG> Instead of wasting time trying to insult them, just delete their GG> accounts, purge your userfile, then add their names/alias to the GG> BADUSER.BBS file. GG> This will keep them (provided they use the same name/alias) from GG> being allowed to log into your BBS as a new user. This works quite well, by the way . Adios for now, Lightnin' Lar (larry@fidogate.com) --- timEd/2 1.10 * Origin: Tesla's Tower/Spokane HUB/ftp.fidogate.com (1:346/49) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00008Date: 11/28/97 From: GARY GILMORE Time: 03:34pm \/To: JEFF DUBOIS (Read 1 times) Subj: message area info file JD> Unfortunately, the particular area I'm referring to is a *.MSG area JD> which, after Squish scans it, is used to create outgoing faxes. For Squish areas, you need a .SQR file. (Where "areaname" is the same name as the area is on disk.) For *.MSG areas, you need a RULES.BBS file in the area's directory. --gary --- Maximus v3.01 * Origin: bloom county bbs * dearborn, mi * (313)582-0888 (1:2410/400) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00009Date: 11/28/97 From: GARY GILMORE Time: 04:53pm \/To: KEN BROWDER (Read 1 times) Subj: StarBar 2.30 KB> Hello Larry. KB> I recently installed StarBar 2.30. [...] I think you might be wasting your breath. Larry isn't listed in the nodelist anymore, and I'm not sure he has access to the echoes. (And I don't have a email address for him.) :-( --gary --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: bloom county bbs * dearborn, mi * (313)582-0888 (1:2410/400) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00010Date: 11/29/97 From: REJEAN LAMBERT Time: 03:08am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: External msg editor Are there any decent message editors that can run with Maximus 3.01 ? I've already tried MSGED, and I don't really like it. I just need one that can read and write to Fido (*.MSG) and Squish bases. If there are any freeware / PD ones with source code, that would be great. I would have written one in MEX, but AFAIK there are no message control commands in there. Can't even read the fields for a particular message, which is why I am turning to an external solution. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: BitByters BBS, Rockland ON, Can. (613)446-7773 v34, (1:163/215) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00011Date: 11/29/97 From: GARY CRAIN Time: 12:31pm \/To: REJEAN LAMBERT (Read 1 times) Subj: External msg editor On Nov 29, 1997, at 03:08, Rejean Lambert of 1:163/215 wrote: Hi Rejean, RL> I've already tried MSGED, and I don't really like it. I just need RL> one that can read and write to Fido (*.MSG) and Squish bases. If RL> there are any freeware / PD ones with source code, that would be The one you don't like. :) The source code is available for MSGED, change what you don't like and re-compile. BTW, what is it you don't like? There are several versions, perhaps a different one would have the features you want. Gary gcrain@infomail.com --- Msged/2 4.20 beta 2 * Origin: Rendezvous!! 4gigs_10000files_500echoareas 512-303-1324 (1:382/92) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 174 MUFFIN (MAXIMUS) Ref: EFZ00012Date: 11/28/97 From: DAVID CHORD Time: 03:18pm \/To: JACK SMITH (Read 1 times) Subj: Good file manager program Hi Jack.. JS> On Nov 25, 1997, David Chord wrote: JS> MFM_119V.ZIP 94K 12-20-95 MFM v1.19v - File area manager DC> That looks like the one. You able to attach it to me via DC> e-mail?? I'd like a replacement copy of it myself.. JS> Sure can. Look for it this afternoon, Dave. Recieved and de-coded OK, thanks.. Cya.. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: GnomeVille TBBS - 644 235-6887 (3:771/1560)