Subj : re: InterBBS File Search
To : xqtr
From : gcubebuddy
Date : Thu Mar 25 2021 04:44 pm
On 02 Aug 2020, xqtr said the following...
xq> Ad> I'm only beginning to wrap my mind around the concept, but that sound
xq> Ad> nifty. I'm not sure how many use cases it'd be good for, but some of
xq> Ad> well, it'd be downright amazing.
xq>
xq> My original idea came, when i was looking for an old DOS file and
xq> couldn't find it. I thought that it would be somewhere in a BBS, but to
xq> look for it, you should have to connect to each one of them.
xq>
xq> So with this script you can make the query in one BBS and search all the
xq> connected BBS ;) It's not something that anyone will use everyday, but
xq> it's a proof o concept that BBSes can interconnect in many ways. :)
xq>
xq> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
xq> * Origin: Another Droid BBS # andr01d.zapto.org:9999 (21:1/111)
You know what would also be interesting is using P2P VPN connections between
BBSs to share resources, and files and such. it would be kind of interesting.
