Subj : JamNNTP, echomail archive, pointing, bbs
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Thu Oct 08 2020 10:44 pm

Hello, August Abolins.
On 10/8/20 10:40 PM you wrote:

CP>> I have no idea of what JamNNTP is.
AA> Look at a recent FIDONEWS newsletter for the section:

I'll have to check that out.







AA> It would probably be easy enough to figure it out. If you   wrote
AA> in any of the echos, they are probably still stored on
AA> somebody's system and you could probably find it.

Possibly.  I keep watching the BBS Ads echos to see if any names catch my attention.

AA> The echomail archive at IPTIA might have it:
AA>   https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/msgs/

I actually found a message there I wrote in 2003, when we were experimenting with Gating echos and email lists.

AA> Even Stas has a netmail-based message-find search available.    It
AA> might be fun to give it a spin with your criteria.  Stas   posted
AA> a brief how-to/syntax in the FUTURE4FIDO echo not long   ago.

I'll have to look for that.  It doesn't sound familiar.


AA> Initially, I also met some resistance and a simple "why not   just
AA> operate bbs" response.  But I wasn't interested in being   a
AA> sysop. I just wanted to participate in echomail, first.

In theory, you can do a BBS mail only. I know, not the point.

I'm not sure what kind of bandwith requirements it takes. I'm sure it would depend on traffic.  But if you set one up and don't really promote, you could basically have a "BBS" that basically just sends and receives mail all day.

Regardless, you would think someone that's involved enough in a hobby like BBSing to run a BBS would be happy to set someone up as a point on their system.



AA> There are a handful of systems that form a web network. If you
AA> pick one of those as your Boss node, then you can be assured
AA> that the messages will move more reliably.  Apparently,   Tommi's
AA> system is one of those.  I got lucky.

I've never heard of that either.  My Z2 Boss is generally reliable.  Z4 is another story.


CP>> But that's in the "do it later" pile.
AA> Uh-Oh..  If you've already got a "pile", I have to wonder when
AA> you will time to process it all?

Likely 3 decades after I die. :)


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