Subj : Re: I have an Idea
To   : Nightfox
From : Fireball
Date : Thu Feb 07 2013 06:24 pm

>
> I had this idea myself, and actually implemented a pair of apps (client and
> server) a few years ago that I'd use for remote paging.  Since my BBS is on
> a separate computer, I wanted to be notified when a user paged me on my
> main computer.  It was fairly simple though in that would just play a sound
> when
> a user paged me.  When I heard the sound, I'd then remote desktop onto my
> BBS machine to talk to the user.
>
> I wrote my client & server apps in C++ to use traditional socket networking
> though, and the drawback to that was that if my server app wasn't running
> (i.e., when my main PC was turned off), the client would take a while
> (several moments) to "page" me because it couldn't connect to the server
> app - It would wait and eventually time out.  I didn't really like that,
> but it worked well when my main PC was turned on and the server app was
> running.  I eventually stopped using it due to that issue though..
>
> Nightfox
>

I'm thinking skip the whole having to login from remote and chat via my
desktop system. I remember that back in the day, when the sysop was running it
on their local system, they'd answer almost immediately. This would bring that
to sbbs for those who have a remote system or sbbs running on a local separate
system.

Fireball

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