Subj : Launching new BBS and conducting research
To   : Daniel
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Aug 14 2019 01:02 pm

Hello Daniel!

Wednesday August 14 2019 00:19, you wrote to All:

 >   Re: Launching new BBS and conducting research
 >   By: Daniel to All on Wed Aug 07 2019 09:18 pm

 > Back in the 90s I was a member of a few boards that had local
 > message boards similar to today's forums.

 > I'm toying with this idea. Is there a feature where attachments can
 > be uploaded to a post so others can see it? Daniel Traechin

To my knowledge there is no support for this in echo mail.

This is more likely due to echo policy that has been in force for 10+
years regarding echo areas in Fidonet.

That said a local echo area should not have that restriction BUT this
could cause various issues/problems for a sysop to control the size of
such attachment - What is to stop a user uploaading a TB of data
multiple times ?

The next issue is where such attachments go?

As it is users can subject to the correct permissions for a user
upload files to the inbound directory or even others using the URL
associated with the bbs.

This works as it is used on my system on a single permission basis but
all uploaded files still are vetted by myself before moving them into
areas available to all web / ftp & ssh users.

All this is down to the way the sysop has set up mbse and it's file
areas etc.

Vince

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