Subj : Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbi
To : Accession
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Nov 08 2025 08:14 am
-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-
> Yes, understood. The "put" direction makes good sense to me. I have a
> question about the "get" side though - What causes the BBS to know to
> pack up all the new messages into a QWK packet though? Does just the
> act of requesting <BBSID>.qwk cause that to happen? I was thinking I'd
> have to somehow "tell" the BBS to create the new QWK packet, and *then*
> grab it with wget/ftp.
Ac> I think either when you connect or when there is a new message(s),
Ac> Synchronet creates the QWK packet and puts it in that location
Ac> automatically. I'm not sure on exactly how it works, but it's there
Ac> every time I grab it, and it's an updated packet each time.
Okay, cool.
Ac> Rob would have to explain that better, but I'll just call it 'magic'.
Ac> :)
