Subj : Re: FSED "Save as Draft" and REPLY kludge
To   : Nick Boel
From : Scott Street
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 09:46:17

On 04 Sep 2025, Nick Boel said the following...

Hello Nick,

 NB> I imagine you may be referring to me here, since I was the only other
 NB> person to reply to you so far and you haven't written back.

Actually, no, while I didn't reply to your message, it wasn't one of them I'm referring to.  I've received a few, far less agreeable netmails.  Sorry for any implication, It was an oversight on my part.

 NB> well as pointing out that every feature you don't like can be disabled.
 NB> You are not forced to use any of them.

This is one of the reasons I like Mystic.  I have disabled services like telnet to be replaced by more familiar Linux (UNIX?) telnetd and telnetd-ssl.  I've gone back and forth with the internal binkp and tosser/packer -- my uplink runs Argus and sometimes Mystic's binkp and Argus' just don't play well;  nothing critical, and surely needs refining, somewhere, I haven't mentioned it as I can't really pin down the issue.  I don't have any Windows systems to install Argus on, or the spare time to really debug this very minor, happens once in a blue moon issue.  I just kill the mis process and let systemd restart it; and all is well.

 NB> I'd love to see a python clone of Mystic, though!

The source is very much a mess, it is only the basic BBS with internode chat and message reading implemented, no mailer, tosser, or listeners for Telnet or SSH (I let systemd do all that heaving lifting), it only works on Linux (Python reasons). And, I've archived and deleted my dev and test containers in favor of the web bbs implementation.  I probably should have taken some screen capture video of it in action.  I was particularly pleased with the template support for the full screen message index reader to support various terminal sizes - namely 132x36 - something that is still a WIP in Mystic.  And I guess, calling it a 'clone' is a stretch - it certainly looks that way to a user,  but for the sysop, all the configurations and menus are text files;  yaml formatted, specifically.  If you want I can post an example of, say, my main menu that looks exactly like my Mystic's BBS main menu.  (I do it now, but SyncTerm, at least on macOS, doesn't support cut/paste to and from the terminal.)

And, thanks Nick, for the interest in the Python bits.


Cheers
Scott

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