--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CCU00002 Date: 08/24/95 From: JIM HENRY Time: 04:36pm \/To: BILL MITCHELL (Read 4 times) Subj: SMNP Support Hello Greg, I think I may have already posted a little about this. I am running andoor on my board to provide my callers Internet access via a dial up SLIP account. This works fine but I also want to retrieve email for ALL of my users during a SLIP session. This is proving to be a daunting task. I have registered the domain airpower.com and my address is "jhenry@airpower.com". Apparently to retrieve email for all of my callers I need to be a SMNP (I think that's what it's called) server. My ISP is trying to help me do this but they keep hammering into me that "all the BBS vendors are going to internal SMNP support". Would you consider putting this in? Do you know of any software around that I can run with RyBBS that will allow me to act as a SMNP server? I know that I can retreive mail if I get a uucp account with someone and runs something like Waffle, UUGate, Act-Up or others. The problem is they all require a UUCP account. Well, just try to get one! I haven't yet found someone local willing to sell me a uucp account, and even if I did, then I would have to pay for two accounts, as I still need the SLIP account for the other stuff. Please help. At least consider it. The future is here now! :-) Thanks. Jim --- SLMR 2.1a The 2nd Amendment..in case the gov't forgets the 1st! --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CCV00000 Date: 08/25/95 From: ROBERT FORGIONE Time: 05:24pm \/To: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop)(Rcvd) (Read 3 times) Subj: Freefile.bbs RF>and saw your messsage asking me to send oyou my RF>FREEFILE.BBS so here it is.. SY> RF>allfile1.zip RF>allfile2.zip SY> SY>hopefully you've grabbed the latest alpha by this time...it SHOULD do SY>the trick for you I have it in and I see what you have done, I will manually check it myself annd let you know. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CCX00000 Date: 08/27/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 04:05pm \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 3 times) Subj: qwk enhancement JH>when he logs on and packs his qwkmail the system might look on the JH>..\qwkstuff directory or wherever you think is best for a file called JH>033.zip if he is user 33 and pack that into his qwk packet. Many of my JH>callers are long distance and this would save them maybe a minute a day. JH>Wheter or not they are long distance it would get them off quicker and JH>make the system available for the next caller that much sooner. The JH>important thing is to have the system pack up ONLY his file and not JH>another users' file. What do you think? If this is already possible JH>and someone out there can tell me how, please do! this sounds like something that only a very small percentage of our sysops would use and i'd suggest that you try to implement it via a door of some type...i'm willing to accomodate RYBBS if somebody else would write the door. Greg --- SLMR 2.1a My reality check just bounced. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CCX00001 Date: 08/27/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 04:11pm \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 5 times) Subj: SMNP Support JH> Would you consider putting this in? Do you know of any software JH> around that I can run with RyBBS that will allow me to act as a SMNP JH> server? JH> I know that I can retreive mail if I get a uucp account with someone JH> and runs something like Waffle, UUGate, Act-Up or others. The problem JH> is they all require a UUCP account. Well, just try to get one! I JH> haven't yet found someone local willing to sell me a uucp account, and JH> even if I did, then I would have to pay for two accounts, as I still off the cuff i'd say this looks like an enormous task to implement and debug and so my first reaction is negative. currently my plans don't include adding any type of internet support for Ry...basically, i see the industry going to a two tiered system where most bbsers will have concurrent i-net accounts. although some people will find message via a bbs convenient i'd venture to say that most people will be directly on the internet within the next two years and email will be easily accessable without a bbs layer Greg --- SLMR 2.1a All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here. --- RyPacker v2.7 * Origin: RyBBS HomeBase `Home of RyBBS!' (414)-962-1098 (1:154/333) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CCY00000 Date: 08/26/95 From: RICK ROSINSKI Time: 06:30pm \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 6 times) Subj: Sysop Could you PLEASE stop posting messages addressed to "SYSOP" in an INTERNATIONAL echo? These messages are getting flagged to other SYSOP's out here. --- DB B2300sl/002493 * Origin: Wolverine (1:239/1004) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CCZ00000 Date: 08/21/95 From: BILL MITCHELL Time: 04:58pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: Rypacker As Jim Henry knows, I am working on a new Rypacker from the ground up. Due to limitations, like not enough time because of work and life itself, it's going to be a slow process. Right now, I have been testing some routines, and using them to re-write and manipulate the OUT files rypacker produces, thus using rypacker to interface with rybbs, and Squish for the actual tossing and packing. Some of the things I will try to include are: Full 4 dimension addressing, ie. zones AND POINTS. Enable email messages written to an internet address to be exported as a correct netmail message to the UUCP utility at your fido<>internet gateway of choice. Users will NOT have to specially format such messages. This is already working here, as long as the address is 36 characters or less. This may work with longer addresses using an alias kludge. DUPE checking. Netmail qualified by username and destination, including ability to keep accounting records. In addition, the ability to set msgbits by same qualifying criteria. If anyone has any questions, or if anyone has ideas, let me know. --- * Origin: V.34 @The Verplanck Point Somewhere in NY/NJ (1:2604/539.11) --------------- ** A related thread FOLLOWS this message. FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CD1G0686 Date: 09/01/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 12:11pm \/To: BILL MITCHELL (Read 5 times) Subj: R: Rypacker BM>As Jim Henry knows, I am working on a new Rypacker from the ground up. D BM>limitations, like not enough time because of work and life itself, it's BM>to be a slow process. Right now, I have been testing some routines, and BM>them to re-write and manipulate the OUT files rypacker produces, thus us BM>rypacker to interface with rybbs, and Squish for the actual tossing and BM>packing. Some of the things I will try to include are: BM>Full 4 dimension addressing, ie. zones AND POINTS. BM>Enable email messages written to an internet address to be exported as a BM>correct netmail message to the UUCP utility at your fido<>internet gatew BM>choice. Users will NOT have to specially format such messages. This is BM>already working here, as long as the address is 36 characters or less. T BM>may work with longer addresses using an alias kludge. DUPE checking. Net BM>qualified by username and destination, including ability to keep account BM>records. In addition, the ability to set msgbits by same qualifying crit BM>If anyone has any questions, or if anyone has ideas, let me know. BM>--- BM> * Origin: V.34 @The Verplanck Point Somewhere in NY/NJ (1:2604/539.11) if you need RyBBS modified to meet your goals let me know... Greg --------------- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LAST Message In Thread <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CC^00000 Date: 08/29/95 From: JIM HENRY Time: 04:07pm \/To: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop)(Rcvd) (Read 8 times) Subj: RyBBS in the future Hello Greg, I think like most serious sysops, I have been giving alot of thought lately to the rapid pace of technological change. I am also trying to maintain a state of the art system, while simultaneously trying to define exactly what the heck that is . The internet and the BBS world seem to me to be merging together. It no longer seems to be enough to offer Fidonet and a myriad of Fido technology networks. We read in the trade rags that such "island" bbs's will fall by the wayside if they don't offer internet connectivity. Enhanced graphic formats, GUI's, and (yech)even Windows compatibility seem to be the future, and the future is here now. While I personally find the world of BBS's much more interesting than the Web, I tend to agree with much of the afore-mentioned predictions. SO...that being said, I was wondering what your vision is for the future of RyBBS. Do you have any planned enhancements in the pipeline? I am not trying to put you on the spot, I think Rybbs is great, but I am concerned that we are starting to lose ground to some of the other packages out there. Thanks. -Jim- --- SLMR 2.1a RAM DISK is not an installation procedure --- RyPacker v2.5 * Origin: AirPower Home of the AIRGUN Echo 610-259-2193 (1:273/408) --------------- ** A related thread FOLLOWS this message. FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CD1G0623 Date: 09/01/95 From: GREG RYAN (Co-Sysop) Time: 12:10pm \/To: JIM HENRY (Read 5 times) Subj: R: RyBBS in the future JH>SO...that being said, I was wondering what your vision is for the future JH>of RyBBS. Do you have any planned enhancements in the pipeline? I am JH>not trying to put you on the spot, I think Rybbs is great, but I am JH>concerned that we are starting to lose ground to some of the other JH>packages out there. Thanks. Jim Thanks for the message and the food for thought. Currently, I have no plans on expanding RyBBS to included integrated Internet support. My feeling about this is that most people will have full Internet support directly through a regional provider. Just look around and you'll see not only private providers popping up left and right...but the cable companies and the telephone companies are looking at this as a way to use that wire they already have coming into your house. It'll be interesting to watch this and we're lucky to be knee-deep in this area of the information revolution. That being said my plans are not to expand RyBBS out of the realm of a bbs into an Internet interface. This area of technology is moving too fast for me to think that integration is a worthwhile investment of my time and energy into something that may be a seldomly used feature because of newly emerging software and interfaces. Greg --------------- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LAST Message In Thread <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 256 RYBBS Ref: CD300000 Date: 08/31/95 From: BRUCE KELLY Time: 06:28am \/To: BILL MITCHELL (Read 5 times) Subj: Rypacker |- If anyone has any questions, or if anyone has ideas, let me know. Thats great news Bill, thats all I ever really complained about and was the reason I left Ry. I really love remoteaccess now but often think of the fun I had with Ry, Greg, and you all. Ry was my very first bbs for almost 5 years. Good luck with rypacker.. - Bruce -=B-) * OLX 2.1 TD * Diagonally parked in a parallel universe. ... Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. --- RA 2.02+/FMail 1.0g+/FD * Origin: The Fun-House * Hingham MA -=USA=- * (617) 749-0526 * (1:101/545)