Subj : I have an Idea
To : Fireball
From : Dreamer
Date : Wed Feb 06 2013 09:01 pm
Re: I have an Idea
By: Fireball to All on Thu Feb 07 2013 03:02 am
> I have this idea and I don't have the knowledge of programming to do it.
> I'm thinking about a remote paging/chat client/server for those of us who
> have synch running on remote servers (in my case a vps). Here's how it
> would work.
There's actually a defined internet standard for this. I was actually thinking
of it today (funny coincidence that -- you logged onto my board today, I happen
to be thinking about it, and you write it later on :P).
Anyhow, it's called the Talk Daemon. It used to be pretty popular on Unix
systems, and has been ported to several other operating systems. Since people
stopped using unix shells for the most part, it's probably not even maintained
anymore.
I was thinking about bringing it up myself, but I've been looking for something
to cut my teeth on anyhow. It would require each participating system to be
running a javacript server. The client would initiate a talk request, and
wait. The receiver would get a telegram, indicating user@bbs would like to
talk, press ctrl-whatever. If the initiator quit out, they would then get a
telegram, etc, etc.
The original talk program that I used was a nice split screen realtime chat. I
think it'd mesh very nicely with Synchronet. And, the source is already out
there. Not sure what license it has... I know there was talk, then later on
ytalk, maybe some others. I'm sure at least one is open source, and only needs
to be ported.
