I've been following several conversations on setting up different mailers /tossers.

What are the advantages or reasons for setting up a different program than
what Mystic already has?

It's not necessarily something I plan to do anytime soon, but then again I'm still figuring all of this out.

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Re: Mailers / tossers
By: Barmed to All on Mon Feb 01 2021 05:45 am

What are the advantages or reasons for setting up a different program than what Mystic already has?

Mystic has a pretty good tosser (my opinion) so you probably don't need anything else. It does file tossing and nodelist compilation too, so you don't need much in the way of external utilities.

It's not necessarily something I plan to do anytime soon, but then again I'm still figuring all of this out.

There might be some feature of a tosser your built in tosser doesn't have so you need another.

Or your BBS may not have a tosser at all, so you need a bare tosser. That was almost always the case in the early days although today most BBSs do have a tosser.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 01 Feb 2021, Al said the following...

What are the advantages or reasons for setting up a different program what Mystic already has?

Mystic has a pretty good tosser (my opinion) so you probably don't need anything else. It does file tossing and nodelist compilation too, so you don't need much in the way of external utilities.

I didn't think I did. But it's interesting to learn about.

There might be some feature of a tosser your built in tosser doesn't
have so you need another.

Or your BBS may not have a tosser at all, so you need a bare tosser.
That was almost always the case in the early days although today most
BBSs do have a tosser.

I've noticed that. I've seen it mentioned with point software as well.

Thanks.

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I've been following several conversations on setting up different mailers /tossers.

What are the advantages or reasons for setting up a different program
than what Mystic already has?

It's not necessarily something I plan to do anytime soon, but then again I'm still figuring all of this out.

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Hey Barmed... I see you calling my board frequently, THANK YOU. :P

Just my personal two cents; I am a medium BBS user, and I do NOT use anything other than what Mystic offers.... it gets my messages, from all the FTNs - but I don't know if I have the BEST netmail support - Which is mostly USER ERROR. Lol.

Just saying that you can totally just use the Mystic software, and you'd be pretty much setup. PRETTY MUCH. :P



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On 02 Feb 2021, paulie420 said the following...

What are the advantages or reasons for setting up a different program than what Mystic already has?
It's not necessarily something I plan to do anytime soon, but then ag I'm still figuring all of this out.

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Hey Barmed... I see you calling my board frequently, THANK YOU. :P

Weell, yours and BPs are Mystic boards I could remember the address for
easily.

I'm experimenting with other apps in Termux on my phone besudes the BBS. Syncterm seem to work mostly fine, except for some reason it's doing
basically 1/3 of the screen for the terminal and cutting the board in half, making things tricky to maneuver around with. So most of those calls are fooling with screen sizes to get that better.

The ultimate goal is I'm figuring that any program that will work in Termux could be adapted as an Android app to improve mobile BBS access.

Just my personal two cents; I am a medium BBS user, and I do NOT use anything other than what Mystic offers.... it gets my messages, from all the FTNs - but I don't know if I have the BEST netmail support - Which
is mostly USER ERROR. Lol.

As I mentioned, I don't plan on changing my setup at thus point, I'm just wanting to u derstand why people do.

Just saying that you can totally just use the Mystic software, and you'd be pretty much setup. PRETTY MUCH. :P

I agree. It seems to do pretty much whatever I need it to, at least as I
figure out what I want.

The couple of hiccups I am having are due to me figuring out things.

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Weell, yours and BPs are Mystic boards I could remember the address for easily.

Darn, I thought it was because 2o fOr beeRS rocked, or something. :P

I'm experimenting with other apps in Termux on my phone besudes the BBS. Syncterm seem to work mostly fine, except for some reason it's doing basically 1/3 of the screen for the terminal and cutting the board in half, making things tricky to maneuver around with. So most of those
calls are fooling with screen sizes to get that better.

The ultimate goal is I'm figuring that any program that will work in Termux could be adapted as an Android app to improve mobile BBS access.

I dislike using terminals on a phone.. maybe a tablet would look nice; I've heard good things about fTelnet, but thats a native Android/iPhone app. I do think using a full term in Termux is way cooler - which you're working on, so.. kudos. I guess it WOULD be pretty awesome to have Syncterm on a tablet; but I'm on Apple hardware so I think I'm pretty much locked out.

:/



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I dislike using terminals on a phone.. maybe a tablet would look nice;
I've heard good things about fTelnet, but thats a native
Android/iPhone app. I do think using a full term in Termux is way
cooler - which you're working on, so.. kudos. I guess it WOULD be
pretty awesome to have Syncterm on a tablet; but I'm on Apple hardware
so I think I'm pretty much locked out.

Another mobile solution might be syncterm as a web service:

https://github.com/jaromaz/stws

Does anyone know of any BBS software that can auto-wrap all content to
ANY width? E.g. mobile aspect ratio?




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On 06 Feb 2021, paulie420 said the following...

Weell, yours and BPs are Mystic boards I could remember the address f easily.

Darn, I thought it was because 2o fOr beeRS rocked, or something. :P

From what I can see, it does. It gives me several ideas as well.

I'm experimenting with other apps in Termux on my phone besudes the B Syncterm seem to work mostly fine, except for some reason it's doing basically 1/3 of the screen for the terminal and cutting the board in half, making things tricky to maneuver around with. So most of those calls are fooling with screen sizes to get that better.

The ultimate goal is I'm figuring that any program that will work in Termux could be adapted as an Android app to improve mobile BBS acces

I dislike using terminals on a phone.. maybe a tablet would look nice; I've heard good things about fTelnet, but thats a native Android/iPhone app. I do think using a full term in Termux is way cooler - which you're working on, so..

I liked the idea of fTelnet, but I couldn't get it to work for me, and emails to the author were unanswered. Other Telnet apps kind of fake the ANSI, which defeats the pur'ose to me.

I'm guessing if I can get the screen size displaying correctlly, Suncterm
would port to a native Android app pretty well.

kudos. I guess it WOULD be pretty awesome to have Syncterm on a tablet; but I'm
on Apple hardware so I think I'm pretty much locked out.

A tablet probably would be an easier to go with, but I'm working with what I have.

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Another mobile solution might be syncterm as a web service:

https://github.com/jaromaz/stws

Oh, really neat Alpha - thanks for the link... I didn't know that project existed. I'll have to check it out today. w00t w00t!



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I'm guessing if I can get the screen size displaying correctlly, Suncterm would port to a native Android app pretty well.

Alpha, another user here, just told me about Syncterm as a web service. Might be worth a look, although its not a native app:

https://github.com/jaromaz/stws

A tablet probably would be an easier to go with, but I'm working with
what I have.

And thats the best stuff to do things on. Whats in front of you. I've misplaced a couple iPhone 4's that I have. Ticking me off, because theres a persistent jailbreak and I can do a few things with it. Theres a new service called... Beeper that allows iMessaging on devices other than iPhones. (I know, I'd be using an iPhone 4... but any Android/etc would work.)

It's still pretty new, from the guys who did the Pebble smart watch years ago. They are still onboarding every user by handle/personally, so signup might take a bit - for any one who might be interested that project is @

beeperhq.com

Cheers, Barmed!



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On 06 Feb 2021, Alpha said the following...

Another mobile solution might be syncterm as a web service:

https://github.com/jaromaz/stws

Does anyone know of any BBS software that can auto-wrap all content to
ANY width? E.g. mobile aspect ratio?

Not so far, thus my search continues. Multimail in Termux is promising.

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On 06 Feb 2021, paulie420 said the following...

It's still pretty new, from the guys who did the Pebble smart watch
years ago.

I loved my Pebble smartwatch. I had the 2nd generation one called the Pebble Time, the vibration motor in that watch was a beast, you'd never miss a notification on that puppy. It was also cool as a alarm clock (if you wore it to bed) to not wake up your significant other.

I wore mine right up until I bought the Apple Watch.


Jay

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On 06 Feb 2021, paulie420 said the following...

I'm guessing if I can get the screen size displaying correctlly, Sunc would port to a native Android app pretty well.

Alpha, another user here, just told me about Syncterm as a web service. Might be worth a look, although its not a native app:

https://github.com/jaromaz/stws

I saw that message. It sounds interesting.

A tablet probably would be an easier to go with, but I'm working with what I have.

And thats the best stuff to do things on. Whats in front of you. I've misplaced
a couple iPhone 4's that I have. Ticking me off, because theres a persistent jailbreak and I can do a few things with it. Theres a new service called... Beeper that allows iMessaging on devices other than iPhones. (I know, I'd be using an iPhone 4... but any Android/etc would work.)

I've got 2 Nook Color e-readers, which aren't supported devices any longer.
I saw a couple of Articles about how to root them and make them into Android tablets or even a Linux based one.

They problem I have with doing anything with them is I need to find the
cables for them, since B&N in their infinite wisdom, made them with their own unique cables.

If I could get thise running, it would open up more possiblities for my experiments.

It's still pretty new, from the guys who did the Pebble smart watch
years ago. They are still onboarding every user by handle/personally, so signup might take
a bit - for any one who might be interested that project is @
beeperhq.com

That sounds like an interesting project too.

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I loved my Pebble smartwatch. I had the 2nd generation one called the Pebble Time, the vibration motor in that watch was a beast, you'd never miss a notification on that puppy. It was also cool as a alarm clock
(if you wore it to bed) to not wake up your significant other.

I wore mine right up until I bought the Apple Watch.
Jay

I heard that there are now open-source new softwares to load on old Pebble's... I don't own one, but if you still have yours I'm fairly sure theres some new development going on!

I hear about it on some podcasts that I listen to...



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Re: Re: Mailers / tossers
By: paulie420 to Barmed on Sat Feb 06 2021 04:46 am

Terminals on a phone... and not even from my own BBS.

I'm feeling that pain right now in JuiceSSH on vert.synchro.net, but on my machine I need to use Qodum or NetRunner or SyncTerm if I want the proper code page for SSH.

And to add insult to injury, i can barely navigate the editor on Synchronet.

If I only had total and complete recall of evrrything I've ever learned ;)
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