Subj : Setting up FIDO and Spooknet
To   : All
From : 2twisty
Date : Tue Apr 12 2022 10:46 pm

Looking to add fido and spooknet.

I watched / followed mystic guy's "add fido" video but it was incomplete. When I search for how to join fido I get the same cryptic BS I used to get back in the 90s.

"find <somefile> on a Fido bbs and do what it says."

They don't even offer you that file on their own web site!  Grr.  I was looking for some more step-by-step stuff since I've been out of this game for almost 30 years.

I created the hub entry in mystic (3:770/1) and assigned myself the testing node address of 3:770/999.

But without a unique node address, I can't use areafix to subscribe to echoes and I can't seem to find the so-damn-super-effing-secret file that gives me the rest of the details I need to request a node address.  

Furthermore, I should probably be in zone 1 since I am in the US, and Mystic Guy is Zone 3.  Not that it really matters in today's age of global everyhing.

Anybody can point me to where I can find the mystery instruction file?  

Also any similar instruction information for joining spooknet?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: The Ratrace Losers (21:3/166)

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