Subj : how to automate posting m
To   : candycane
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jul 31 2023 18:12:59

  Re: how to automate posting m
  By: candycane to Digital Man on Mon Jul 31 2023 07:28 pm

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to candycane <=-
 >
 >  DM>   Re: how to automate posting messages to a board
 >  DM>   By: candycane to All on Mon Jul 31 2023 06:05 am
 >
 >  > hi,
 >  > how would i make a raspberry pi automate posting to a bbs board? i don't
 >  > want to make a whole bbs server, just have it post to the board. i've
 >  > tried looking at the wiki's how-to, but i'm confused which programs i
 >  > need to install to achieve this..
 >
 >  DM> If you install Synchronet, you'll get jsexec and the module postmsg.js
 >  DM> which can be invoked with jsexec:
 >  DM> https://wiki.synchro.net/module:postmsg
 >
 >  DM> You don't need to install anything but Synchronet and then you can use
 >  DM> the postmsg module to automate the posting of messages to a Synchronet
 >  DM> message base. --

 > Ah, alright thanks!

This guidance does assume you're running a Synchronet BBS (this is the "Synchronet Discussion" message area after all). If you're not running a Synchronet BBS (or any BBS at all), then using standard message posting/network technologies like QWK or FTN (FidoNet Technology) would be better.
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