Subj : MBNNTP
To   : Ken Bowley
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat May 05 2018 02:40 am

Hello Ken!

04 May 18 21:59, you wrote to all:

 KB> A long time ago I started looking at mbnntp and played with using a
 KB> newsgroup client to access the various echo's on my system, but
 KB> unfortunately most of my work was lost with a hard drive crash on my
 KB> development workstation about a year ago.  Now that I'm starting to
 KB> look at things again, I'm reminded that mbnntp barely supports the
 KB> basics when it comes to NNTP commands.  It doesn't implement much of
 KB> RFC 977, only AUTHINFO and XOVER (barely) from RFC 2980, and RFC 3977
 KB> wasn't even published when it was written.

 KB> My question:  Is anyone doing any work on mbnntp?  If I do get around
 KB> to actually reading the RFC's and attempting to get them implemented
 KB> in mbnntp, is anyone willing to look over my code to make sure I don't
 KB> introduce security issues?

I haven't looked at mbnntp; been more concentrating on the mailer and fidonet 
processing stuff.

 KB> I've got a strong history as a SysAdmin (which includes debugging
 KB> developers code), but my coding is more of a hobby.  It seems that I
 KB> have to re-teach myself C every time I do work on MBSE.  :-)

I started learning C to fix issues with MakeNL, and then as I got more 
comfortable with it I tackled MBSE.  There are still a bunch of things I want 
to work on with it.  The interBBS chat needs to be overhauled and upgraded to 
support IPv6, the BBS won't fall back to displaying the ASCII file if the ANSI 
file doesn't exist, etc.

There are only so many hours in a day...

Andrew

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