Subj : Re: BinktermPHP 2.0 AI Echomail Responder (Early Access)
To   : Adept
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon May 18 2026 09:47 am

  Re: Re: BinktermPHP 2.0 AI Echomail Responder (Early Access)
  By: Adept to Nightfox on Mon May 18 2026 01:06 pm

 Ni>  aw>>> We're excited to announce that BinktermPHP 2.0 will ship with an

 Ni>  op>> Are you kidding me? Get that AI slop out of here.

 Ni>> Why?  I've had a look at it, and it actually looks pretty cool..

 Ad> Can you summarize what it can do?

From reading the GitHub page about it, it looks like a message forum software package (written in PHP) that connects to FidoNet-style message networks and provides a web interface, and has an old-school theme to look similar to ANSI that you'd see on a BBS.  And it looks like they recently added telnet capabilities to it so that users can telnet in.

 Ad> Not to get into yet another genAI discussion, but I find that I have
 Ad> usages that I think are net positive, and usages I detest. And I'm curious
 Ad> where I'd fall on this one.

For software development, AI tools can help complete some tasks faster (and I think it can also be useful for helping with mundane tasks).

Nightfox
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