Subj : Clearing Houz Update BBS details
To   : Mindsurfer
From : deon
Date : Sat Aug 09 2025 08:33 am

  Re: Clearing Houz Update BBS details
  By: Mindsurfer to deon on Fri Aug 08 2025 04:46 pm

Howdy,

 > ok, as i understand you, a modem phone number within a nodelist makes sense
 > only if you use some old mailers like frontdoor, mcmail etc pp?
 >
 > i thought using the sexpots driver would make connections possible to the
 > bbs and the mailer, but i guess binkp is not made for that.

Right, I dont think BINKP can - it was designed mostly for TCP transport, not serial.

That said, it reminds me that there was some discussion about having BBS information in the nodelist (in this net anyway).

Normally a nodelist is for machines to read (ie: mailers), so there hasnt been anyway to decern people info (BBS address for people) and machine info (ie: mailer address for mailers).

While "ITN" and "IFC" is normally for mailer over TCP there are a very few folks actually doing that these days.

I kinda like the idea of having BBS lists in a list to transfer (which is why I have the BBS list and BBS info in clrghouz), but no standard way of sharing that so that its of use to others.

While synchronet has the bbslist using a DATA echo, I could look at pulling that out and populating clrghouz as well as sharing it with other BBS's - is there a BBS mode/method for other BBSes (I guess mystic being the most common)? It might be nice that that gets auto updated with all BBSes during mail/file transfers?


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