• 3rd BBS allnighter

    From Fang-Castro@VERT/FTPBBS to All on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 22:46:50
    I'm on my 3rd BBS allnighter! =)

    Having way too much fun tinkering with Synchronet and 'dialing out' to other Synchronet BBSs to see what you guys are doing with your boards. Thanks to many of you for having the 40+ SBBS mods that are going to keep me up until 4am again! This is way too much fun.

    What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P

    Has Usurper always been this difficult to get started playing? Jumped by insance women, 2 trolls and a rogue. How am I supposed to deal with that at level 1?

    ...have fun out there!

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]

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  • From Codefenix@VERT/CONCHAOS to Fang-Castro on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 08:32:07
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to All on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:46 pm

    Has Usurper always been this difficult to get started playing? Jumped by insance women, 2 trolls and a rogue. How am I supposed to deal with that at level 1?

    Typically that happens if you head into the dungeon with low defense and use the (F)ight to death option, which doesn't give you a chance to run if battles get too tough.

    My strategy is to prioritize defense over offense in the beginning. In other words, spend more of your gold on armor than on your weapon. And when going to the dungeon, be selective on what monsters you (A)ttack. You'll find that you can usually take down small groups of Punks, Guards, and Old Men/Women, but if you come across monsters that summon undead, make sure you (R)un, otherwise you're hosed. After a few successful fights, you'll be ready to level up, which awards you gold to go spend on better armor and maybe even a better weapon too. Repeat this until monsters start doing very little damage against you, then you should be able to start (F)ighting to the death.

    When you come across the Wishing Well, always select Defense or Hitpoints to make you even harder to kill. This is especially true in New mode, where you can easily fill up your armor slots with the best available stuff relatively early on in the game, therefore you run low on ways to increase your defense, making the game tough again later on at higher levels.

    Don't forget to try make mixed drinks at Orb's Health Club. That's another easy and decent way to boost your stats for 3000 gold a pop, including defense.

    I hope this is helpful. Have fun!

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  • From Dogphish@VERT/BLUENOTE to Fang-Castro on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 06:46:03
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to All on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:46 pm

    Having way too much fun tinkering with Synchronet and 'dialing out' to other Synchronet BBSs to see what you guys are doing with your boards. Thanks to many of you for having the 40+ SBBS mods that are going to keep

    Same here Fang, I just started up my bbs about a week ago and my learning curve on Sychronet has gotten better. Still working on tweaking but you are more than welcome to stop by and check my bbs out at bluenote.synchro.net "Bluenote Music Source". I am a musician so i used to be way into sequencing so I had a board that carried alot of MOD files and different utils as well for music.

    Take Care, Dogphish

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  • From The Lizard Master@VERT/NITEEYES to Fang-Castro on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 08:51:57
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to All on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:46 pm

    Has Usurper always been this difficult to get started playing? Jumped by insance women, 2 trolls and a rogue. How am I supposed to deal with that at level 1?

    Sometimes you die the first couple of days, I think the default lets you go in one more time and resurect if I remember correctly.

    ---TLM

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Fang-Castro on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 16:34:29
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to All on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:46 pm

    What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P

    EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.

    IRC2P, the official i2p IRC network (darknet) is fun to visit every now and then.

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    gopher://gopher.operationalsecurity.es

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  • From Fang-Castro@VERT/FTPBBS to Dogphish on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 16:40:54
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Dogphish to Fang-Castro on Wed Aug 19 2020 06:46 am

    Having way too much fun tinkering with Synchronet and 'dialing out' to

    Same here Fang, I just started up my bbs about a week ago and my learning curve on Sychronet has gotten better. Still working on tweaking but you are more than welcome to stop by and check my bbs out at bluenote.synchro.net

    Maybe we can share notes =) I'll stop by in a bit!

    "Bluenote Music Source". I am a musician so i used to be way into sequencing so I had a board that carried alot of MOD files and different utils as well for music.

    Fun! I used to play around with MODtrackers and Fruityloops in my lame attempts at making industrial/techno/jungle tracks...

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]

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  • From Fang-Castro@VERT/FTPBBS to Dogphish on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 17:08:25
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Dogphish to Fang-Castro on Wed Aug 19 2020 06:46 am

    I tried to login as new and create an account on your BBS but when I got to the send a SysOp an email explaining why I called, etc. it said something about sending you Netmail and 'no netmail allowed' and then hung up on me =/

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]

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  • From Dogphish@VERT/BLUENOTE to Fang-Castro on Thursday, August 20, 2020 06:38:27
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to Dogphish on Wed Aug 19 2020 04:40 pm

    Maybe we can share notes =) I'll stop by in a bit!

    More than welcome, i am still trying to get my outbound email working for internet. But just yell and i'll manually validate.

    Fun! I used to play around with MODtrackers and Fruityloops in my lame attempts at making industrial/techno/jungle tracks...

    It's been along time for me as well. I mainly use Logic Audio on my mac now to do all my sound recording/editing.

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  • From Dogphish@VERT/BLUENOTE to Fang-Castro on Thursday, August 20, 2020 06:39:02
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to Dogphish on Wed Aug 19 2020 05:08 pm

    Sorry Fang, i'll get it fixed and validate your account

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  • From Fang-Castro@VERT/FTPBBS to Arelor on Thursday, August 20, 2020 21:54:27
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Arelor to Fang-Castro on Wed Aug 19 2020 04:34 pm

    What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P

    EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.

    EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]

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  • From Fang-Castro@VERT/FTPBBS to Dogphish on Thursday, August 20, 2020 22:00:36
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Dogphish to Fang-Castro on Thu Aug 20 2020 06:38 am

    Fun! I used to play around with MODtrackers and Fruityloops in my lame attempts at making industrial/techno/jungle tracks...

    It's been along time for me as well. I mainly use Logic Audio on my mac now to do all my sound recording/editing.

    Check this out. https://youtu.be/MCJT53GMoEg
    Guy puts 'coronavirus' into his audio program and makes some heavy metal. =p

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Fang-Castro on Friday, August 21, 2020 03:47:05
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to Arelor on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:54 pm

    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Arelor to Fang-Castro on Wed Aug 19 2020 04:34 pm

    What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P

    EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.

    EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]


    I don't think EFnet is bad. Most channels are ghost towns but the ones that are active are quite ok. At least the ones I am in.

    I used to be in Ponychat until they closed, then I moved to Canternet. Not exactly a very busy network, but #techponies is quite active.

    I used to like Freenet until everybody started pushing for registration with their channels. DALnet is even more deserted than EFnet and the few people I have met there was extremely depresing.

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  • From Dogphish@VERT/BLUENOTE to Fang-Castro on Friday, August 21, 2020 08:01:56
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to Dogphish on Thu Aug 20 2020 10:00 pm

    Check this out. https://youtu.be/MCJT53GMoEg
    Guy puts 'coronavirus' into his audio program and makes some heavy metal.

    That actually sounds pretty dang cool man!

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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to Fang-Castro on Friday, August 21, 2020 20:09:00
    What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P
    EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
    EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!

    IRC used to be my main way of conversing with folks I know... but over the years it finally died, IMO - or at least for my vast network of irc folk.

    :(



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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Fang-Castro on Saturday, August 22, 2020 00:21:22
    Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Fang-Castro to Arelor on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:54 pm

    What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P

    EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.

    EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!

    I've been on EfNet for 25 years. I can confirm it's garbage, and we love our garbage.

    I'm also on FreeNode, 2600Net and obviously SynchroNet. I pop into some ColdFront channels from time to time. I spent a long time on QuakeNet years back...

    I'm also on a couple private irc servers for .. things.

    DaiTengu

    ... Landru! Guide us!

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  • From Hatton@VERT/THRCORN to paulie420 on Saturday, August 22, 2020 14:36:37
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: paulie420 to Fang-Castro on Fri Aug 21 2020 08:09 pm

    EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
    IRC used to be my main way of conversing with folks I know...

    Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.

    Hatton

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  • From Hylian@VERT to paulie420 on Saturday, August 22, 2020 17:26:00
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: paulie420 to Fang-Castro on Fri Aug 21 2020 08:09 pm

    I am a fan of freenode.net and the off topic ubuntu channel. I also hang out from time to time on twit's irc channel.
    -Denny aka Hylian

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  • From Fang-Castro@VERT/FTPBBS to Hatton on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 00:16:58
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hatton to paulie420 on Sat Aug 22 2020 02:36 pm

    Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.

    Wow, that's cool! 're-met'?

    [fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]

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  • From Hakuchi@VERT to paulie420 on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 20:44:00
    paulie420 wrote to Fang-Castro <=-

    IRC used to be my main way of conversing with folks I know... but over
    the years it finally died, IMO - or at least for my vast network of irc folk.

    IRC haven't died, not even close. Sure that heavyuse time of 90's and early 2K is thing of past, but IRC wont go anywhere.
    Just like some say that 'Slack killed the E-Mail ...' Or something stupid like that.
    Good old tech never dies, while these new thingies seem to come and go faster than 80's comes back to fashion ...


    ... ^~\MEH_™Z!';;_
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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Hakuchi on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 16:51:33
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hakuchi to paulie420 on Tue Aug 25 2020 08:44 pm

    IRC haven't died, not even close. Sure that heavyuse time of 90's and early 2K is thing of past, but IRC wont go anywhere.
    Just like some say that 'Slack killed the E-Mail ...' Or something stupid like that.
    Good old tech never dies, while these new thingies seem to come and go faster than 80's comes back to fashion ...

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot back in its heyday.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Andeddu on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 18:56:56
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Andeddu to Hakuchi on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:51 pm

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot back in its heyday.

    I use it pretty much every day (and hexchat on Linux, less often): irc.synchro.ent

    digital man

    This Is Spinal Tap quote #38:
    Artie Fufkin: I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass.
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  • From Hakuchi@VERT to Andeddu on Thursday, August 27, 2020 18:34:00
    Andeddu wrote to Hakuchi <=-

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
    back in its heyday.

    Sure they do. I have basically always used *nix shell whatnot IRC clients. Irssi for over 25 years. Many "youngsters" use WeeChat nowadays, but I haven't seen any reason to switch.

    Although I did change from Screen to tmux some time ago.


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  • From mage@VERT/CANADIAN to Andeddu on Friday, August 28, 2020 07:17:48
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Andeddu to Hakuchi on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:51 pm

    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hakuchi to paulie420 on Tue Aug 25 2020 08:44 pm

    IRC haven't died, not even close. Sure that heavyuse time of 90's and early 2K is thing of past, but IRC wont go anywhere.
    Just like some say that 'Slack killed the E-Mail ...' Or something stupid like that.
    Good old tech never dies, while these new thingies seem to come and go faster than 80's comes back to fashion ...

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot back in its heyday.


    I started using this BBS recently. I kinda find it facinating since BBS is way before my time.

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Hakuchi on Friday, August 28, 2020 11:22:39
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hakuchi to Andeddu on Thu Aug 27 2020 06:34 pm

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
    back in its heyday.

    Sure they do. I have basically always used *nix shell whatnot IRC clients. Irssi for over 25 years. Many "youngsters" use WeeChat nowadays, but I haven't seen any reason to switch.

    I moved from ircii, to Bitch-X, to irssi over the course of the better part of the last 3 decades.


    Although I did change from Screen to tmux some time ago.

    I really need to make that switch, sometime. I keep meaning to, but screen commands are just so ingraned into my head.

    DaiTengu

    ... Blessed be he who is called a big wheel, for he goeth around in circles.

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  • From Hakuchi@VERT to DaiTengu on Friday, August 28, 2020 20:56:00
    DaiTengu wrote to Hakuchi <=-


    I really need to make that switch, sometime. I keep meaning to, but screen commands are just so ingraned into my head.

    I know the feeling :)


    ... ^~\MEH_™Z!';;_
    --- MultiMail/OS2 v0.52
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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to mage on Friday, August 28, 2020 16:29:46
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: mage to Andeddu on Fri Aug 28 2020 07:17 am

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
    back in its heyday.


    I started using this BBS recently. I kinda find it facinating since BBS is way before my time.

    Ow, my back.

    Get off my lawn, and I'll give you some of this hard candy in my pocket. Or I'll make you a mixtape of .. wait, when did that become classic rock? Music these days is just noise....

    Time to schedule my annual colonoscopy....


    (You're making us feel old)




    DaiTengu

    ... Tolkien is hobbit-forming.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to DaiTengu on Friday, August 28, 2020 23:09:00
    Time to schedule my annual colonoscopy....

    I get one done every 2 to 3 years...as I have a history
    of benign polyps (but no cancer). However, I did lose an
    uncle to colon cancer years ago.

    (You're making us feel old)

    My late father said for years that he was 19. I believed
    him...until I passed him...then "I smelled a rat". My late
    wife said "There's something rotten in Denmark, and it isn't
    the codfish".

    So, it got to be "You're 19, and your son is 42?? There
    must be something in the water". <G>

    Daryl

    ... Do not try to cure this ham.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
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  • From mage@VERT/CANADIAN to DaiTengu on Saturday, August 29, 2020 06:31:36
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: DaiTengu to mage on Fri Aug 28 2020 04:29 pm

    LOL :)

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to mage on Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:22:27
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: mage to Andeddu on Fri Aug 28 2020 07:17 am

    I started using this BBS recently. I kinda find it facinating since BBS is way before my time.

    Likewise. I caught the vintage computer bug for no discernable reason earlier on in the year and randomly picked up a '84 Macintosh in mint condition. I didn't have any real use for it though due to the games being basic and having no real reason to carry out tasks such as word processing. I ended up on Reddit and learned about the bulletin board system which I had no knowledge of previously. As such, because my computer pre-dates the world-wide-web I decided to get a WiFi serial modem and the terminal software necessary to go on this early form of the internet and make use of my machine... I've been having a blast ever since!

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to DaiTengu on Friday, August 28, 2020 22:55:00
    DaiTengu wrote to Hakuchi <=-

    Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
    back in its heyday.

    Sure they do. I have basically always used *nix shell whatnot IRC clients. Irssi for over 25 years. Many "youngsters" use WeeChat nowadays, but I haven't seen any reason to switch.

    I moved from ircii, to Bitch-X, to irssi over the course of the
    better part of the last 3 decades.

    I've been an irssi user for about that long too. I do also
    sometimes use XChat (now HexChat) if I'm on a system with a GUI.
    My daily driver though is irssi via SSH/screen idling on a RPi in
    the #synchronet channel. :-)

    Although I did change from Screen to tmux some time ago.

    I really need to make that switch, sometime. I keep meaning to,
    but screen commands are just so ingraned into my head.

    Same. I have played with tmux a little, and I do like the split
    window stuff, but mostly I still use screen because it does
    everything I need and as you said, the commands are in muscle
    memory.



    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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  • From Hatton@VERT/THRCORN to Fang-Castro on Sunday, August 30, 2020 19:57:00
    Fang-Castro wrote to Hatton <=-

    Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.

    Wow, that's cool! 're-met'?

    Yeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
    school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other were
    on an EFNET IRC channel in 1996. We "dated" online for 10 months, lived together for 9 months and have been married for 22 years.

    I can tell the whole story but we just got back from camping for a week
    with her parents and I'm a bit beat.

    Hatton

    ... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Daryl Stout on Saturday, August 29, 2020 07:43:00
    Daryl Stout wrote to DaiTengu <=-

    Time to schedule my annual colonoscopy....

    I get one done every 2 to 3 years...as I have a history
    of benign polyps (but no cancer). However, I did lose an
    uncle to colon cancer years ago.

    (You're making us feel old)

    Chadwick Bozeman just passed away of colon cancer at 43. Get tested,
    folks.

    (2 great uncles passed away of colon cancer, mom is a 20-year
    survivor, my family gets tested regularly...)



    ... Omens are there to be broken.
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Hatton on Monday, August 31, 2020 12:12:21
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hatton to Fang-Castro on Sun Aug 30 2020 07:57 pm

    Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.

    Yeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
    school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other were on an EFNET IRC channel in 1996. We "dated" online for 10 months, lived together for 9 months and have been married for 22 years.

    Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)

    HusTler
    havens.synchro.net:23

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to HusTler on Monday, August 31, 2020 15:27:12
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Hatton on Mon Aug 31 2020 12:12 pm

    Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or
    so.
    Yeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
    school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other
    Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)

    They exist. There's one fellow on Fidonet who's wife started out as a user on a board he ran.
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    Underminer
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    Fidonet: 1:342/17
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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, August 31, 2020 13:24:00
    Chadwick Bozeman just passed away of colon cancer at 43. Get tested,
    folks.

    There was a young lady in Sherwood, Arkansas (just northeast of Little
    Rock), diagnosed with colon cancer in her mid 20's. She didn't last 6
    weeks. Another female, too embarrassed to tell her doctor there was
    blood in her fecal stool, ended up going to the Emergency Room 9 months
    later with violent abdominal pain. She was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer...they couldn't do a thing for her.

    (2 great uncles passed away of colon cancer, mom is a 20-year
    survivor, my family gets tested regularly...)

    Years ago, people would talk about their bowels and bladder, and
    would not say a word about sex. Now, it's the other way around. While
    the reproductive and urinary systems between males and females are
    different, the digestive systems are identical.

    Admittedly, the prep work is a PITA, especially if you have
    hemorrhoids...but early detection (especially if your family has
    a history of colon cancer) can literally save your @$$.

    Too bad we can't harness the gas afterwards for use in our vehicles.
    If we could, instead of being "a contributor in the wind section", I'd
    get a palatte of Bush's Baked Beans, get the "secret formula from
    "Duke" (the original one passed away, but I'm sure they'll get another
    one), then tell OPEC what they can do with their gasoline prices. Along
    that line, regular gas in Little Rock, Arkansas late last week was
    $1.85 a gallon.

    Daryl

    ... Diarrhea is hereditary. It runs in your jeans.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net
  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to Hatton on Monday, August 31, 2020 14:30:00
    Yeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
    school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other
    were on an EFNET IRC channel in 1996. We "dated" online for 10 months, lived together for 9 months and have been married for 22 years.

    Congratulations on the 22 years. :)

    My late wife and I were friends for 17 1/2 years, and never thought
    about marriage...let alone to each other. We met on a BBS run by the
    computer science department at the local college (we both have degrees
    from there), and while the BBS is gone, the college is there. She
    became a user, then a Co-Sysop, then we became "Married With Modem"
    to my dial-up BBS. Sadly, I lost her to a fatal heart attack 3 weeks
    shy of our 4th wedding anniversary 13 1/2 years ago, and I never
    remarried. However, I continue the BBS in her memory...as we had
    promised that to each other, if the other one passed on first.

    She could find errors in bulletins, menus, etc., that I'd never
    see, and her eyesight was horrible. On the doorgames, she was a
    great winner, but was a sore loser. <G>

    Daryl

    ... Is The Sysop Gone?? Good!! Now, I can !#@$%&*^ NO CARRIER
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net
  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to HusTler on Monday, August 31, 2020 14:44:00
    Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online)
    stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)

    My late wife and I did just that. :)

    The University Of Arkansas At Little Rock (UALR) Computer Science
    Department had a public BBS, and that's where we met. The first time
    I went to her house, it was to help her with a computer issue. She
    told me to NOT lean back in the swivel chair...but as a Type A Male,
    I didn't listen. :P

    It tipped over, and sliced my lower back. Not panicked at all, she
    said "Take off your shirt, and I'll get the First Aid Kit". She swabbed
    the wound, which was just above the waist (had it been lower, I would've
    had to have gotten naked). Several days later, I had lower back pain
    from the injury, so I went to the clinic. The doctor, looking at the
    wound said "Whoever cleaned this, wiped out any chance of infection", and
    that stuck with me for 17 1/2 years.

    In 2002, I went to visit her at H.U.D. subsidized housing for the
    disabled (she was, but I wasn't), and she was about to take her
    dachshund out for a walk. He was thrilled to see me, and she asked me
    if I'd like to walk him, and I said "sure". Well, he had one of those retractable leashes...which I *ORIGINALLY* preferred...because it lets
    the dog go in the poop filled grass, and I stay on the sidewalk. I was
    holding the leash in front of my groin (that was my first mistake), and somehow, it came off his collar, retracted at full speed, and popped me
    in the genitals. I collapsed to the ground in pain, then the "weiner
    widget" jumped on the area, as if to say "is something wrong??".

    Realizing her alligator (my nickname, as I can do the baby alligator
    distress call) wasn't there, she (her nickname was snake, but she
    respected them) came out, and was horrified to find me on the ground.
    She asked what happened, and I groaned "I got attacked by a leash"!!

    She helped me inside, and I was hurting, and thought I was in mortal
    danger, as males can bleed to death from an injury in that area. So, I
    told her I was "gathering my thoughts" (still in agony), and then asked
    her if she'd "take a look" (sex was the last thing on my mind at this
    point). I thought she was going to dump me like a hot rock for "exposing myself" to her...so I asked "Do you think any less of me??". She said
    "I give you credit for your common sense. I would've called 911, if I
    had seen blood". I knew, RIGHT THEN, that THIS was the woman I was going
    to marry, and proposed to her 2 days later.

    She was first a user on my BBS, then my Co-Sysop, then my wife. Since
    it was a dial-up BBS, we were truly "Married With Modem". She could
    spot errors in the bulletins, menus, and autoposts, that I'd never see;
    yet, her eyesight was horrible. On the doorgames, she was a great winner,
    but she was a sore loser. Conversations got to be "I guess you don't want
    any tonight??" <G>

    Sadly, she died of a heart attack 3 weeks shy of our 4th wedding
    anniversary 13 1/2 years ago, and both of us had promised to continue
    the BBS in the memory of the other one. I still miss her to this day...
    and I never remarried after her death. At this stage of life, one has
    too much "baggage"...physical, emotional, financial, etc. -- and I don't
    want or need that "drama" in my life.

    Daryl

    ... Do you, Sysop, take this BBS, to be your wedded spouse??
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net
  • From Hatton@VERT/THRCORN to HusTler on Monday, August 31, 2020 21:43:41
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Hatton on Mon Aug 31 2020 12:12 pm

    Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)

    One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at a BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meeting.

    Hatton

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Hatton on Monday, August 31, 2020 23:44:52
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hatton to HusTler on Mon Aug 31 2020 09:43 pm

    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Hatton on Mon Aug 31 2020 12:12 pm

    Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online)
    stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)

    One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at a BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meeting.

    Hatton


    i got a hookup via a lord game
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Hatton on Tuesday, September 01, 2020 08:08:16
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hatton to HusTler on Mon Aug 31 2020 09:43 pm

    Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories.

    One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meetin

    That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in IRC at the same time lol

    HusTler
    havens.synchro.net:23

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  • From Hatton@VERT/THRCORN to HusTler on Tuesday, September 01, 2020 16:49:38
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Hatton on Tue Sep 01 2020 08:08 am

    That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in IRC at the same time lol

    Hah! Most of the time when I venture into an IRC channel it's an idle-fest. I will say that when I popped into the Synchronet I did at least get some response :)

    Hatton

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Hatton on Tuesday, September 01, 2020 16:56:32
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Hatton to HusTler on Tue Sep 01 2020 04:49 pm

    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Hatton on Tue Sep 01 2020 08:08 am

    That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in
    IRC at the same time lol

    Hah! Most of the time when I venture into an IRC channel it's an idle-fest. I will say that when I popped into the Synchronet I did at least get some response :)


    well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are you an important celebrity?

    with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt gone.
    it's just the way it is.

    if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts with all the scrolling.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Tuesday, September 01, 2020 22:36:50
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: MRO to Hatton on Tue Sep 01 2020 04:56 pm

    well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are you an important celebrity?

    with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt gone. it's just the way it is.

    if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts with all the scrolling.

    Generally, that wasn't my experience when I used to use IRC (mid-90s to early 2000s). Most of the time, when I used to use IRC, the channels I was in were almost always fairly active. I used to go chat about stuff in IRC for a while at a time. For instance, in the mid-90s, there was an OS/2 channel I used to chat in, and there was almost always some conversation there when I joined. It seems things are different these days, because I rarely had to leave my computer running all day to wait for a response.

    It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of communication where you can leave a message and wait a while, because you can quit out of Discord and go back, and it saves what channels you were in, chat history, etc., so you can go back into Discord later and basically get back to where you were easily and check for messages.

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.

    Nightfox

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  • From Hatton@VERT/THRCORN to MRO on Wednesday, September 02, 2020 11:23:13
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: MRO to Hatton on Tue Sep 01 2020 04:56 pm

    if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts with all the scrolling.

    I was a ChanOp for an active EfNet chanel for some time, I recall having to scroll.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Wednesday, September 02, 2020 10:02:00
    Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of
    communication where you can leave a message and wait a while,
    because you can quit out of Discord and go back, and it saves
    what channels you were in, chat history, etc., so you can go back
    into Discord later and basically get back to where you were
    easily and check for messages.

    One disadvantage to Discord, for me anyway, is that it (the
    application) requires you to be running a GUI on your OS of
    choice. I don't always have that available.

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your
    channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it
    running.

    The way I do IRC is that I have an Raspberry Pi running all the
    time, doing various things (DynDNS updater, small backup
    repository, and some others). It's headless and runs Linux. So,
    I can open a 'screen' session on the RPi, then open a CLI IRC
    client (I like 'irssi') to leave idling on several IRC servers/channels.
    You can then SSH in/out of that RPI from another device on the LAN
    and restore the screen, and it's as if you never left. Also the
    client does logging so everything is always saved. Pretty handy
    and works perfectly for my needs. It's a good way to stay in the
    #synchronet channel for example, and see all the discussion (and
    update notices) rapidly. Also a great place to get SBBS support
    directly from DM/EC/Deuce and others.




    ... Don't cry for me I have vi.
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to HusTler on Tuesday, September 01, 2020 22:21:00
    One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meetin

    That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in
    IRC at the same time lol

    Years ago, there was one at a local Denny's. One of the Sysops (he passed away several years ago) there had a fancy new laptop...and when he brought
    it out of its carrying bag, all conversation stopped, and all eyes moved to
    the table!! <G>

    Daryl

    ... Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net
  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Nightfox on Wednesday, September 02, 2020 14:01:05
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue Sep 01 2020 10:36 pm

    well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are yo an important celebrity?

    with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt gon it's just the way it is.

    if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts w all the scrolling.

    Generally, that wasn't my experience when I used to use IRC (mid-90s to earl 2000s). Most of the time, when I used to use IRC, the channels I was in wer almost always fairly active. I used to go chat about stuff in IRC for a whi at a time. For instance, in the mid-90s, there was an OS/2 channel I used t chat in, and there was almost always some conversation there when I joined. seems things are different these days, because I rarely had to leave my computer running all day to wait for a response.

    It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of communication where yo can leave a message and wait a while, because you can quit out of Discord an go back, and it saves what channels you were in, chat history, etc., so you go back into Discord later and basically get back to where you were easily a check for messages.

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locall when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.

    Nightfox

    The real kicker for running an IRC client is running it in an Unix shell that is up 24/7. That way you can connect to it whenever you want and check all the backscroll you want. It works very well that way.

    There are also bouncers and ZNC that accomplish a similar fuction. They save the backscroll for you and you can check it out each time you connect.

    I am not a fan of Discord. The whole thing is too bloated and cumbersome and as far as I remember you need a discord account even if you want to connect to a third party server. Screw that.

    If you want a IM-like experience then XMPP/Jabber are probably a better option, since the server will save the backscroll for you and you get delivered your backlog messages each time you log in back. BUt XMPP has its own set of problems.

    Nowadays I lurk lots of IRC channels. The ones I follow usually have activity at specific times of the day... it is a matter of joining during the hours where people is around. Or leaving an IRC client running on a shell (as explained above).


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Arelor on Wednesday, September 02, 2020 13:05:42
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Wed Sep 02 2020 02:01 pm

    The real kicker for running an IRC client is running it in an Unix shell that is up 24/7. That way you can connect to it whenever you want and check all the backscroll you want. It works very well that way.

    Yeah, if you have such a machine available, that's an option. And since I run a BBS anyway, that's something I could do.

    Nightfox

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Thursday, September 03, 2020 18:19:00
    On 09-01-20 22:36, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    Generally, that wasn't my experience when I used to use IRC (mid-90s to early 2000s). Most of the time, when I used to use IRC, the channels I was in were almost always fairly active. I used to go chat about stuff
    in IRC for a while at a time. For instance, in the mid-90s, there was
    an OS/2 channel I used to chat in, and there was almost always some conversation there when I joined. It seems things are different these days, because I rarely had to leave my computer running all day to wait for a response.

    Yeah IRC in the 90s used to be quite busy, with some chat going on almost all the time.

    It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of communication
    where you can leave a message and wait a while, because you can quit
    out of Discord and go back, and it saves what channels you were in,
    chat history, etc., so you can go back into Discord later and basically get back to where you were easily and check for messages.

    Yes, Discord also has notifications, so you can see where all the unread messages are, whereas in IRC, you simply miss then. :(

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.

    Yes, you have to have an active IRC client to get a log.


    ... It's a chain saw. I always carry one for emergencies.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.51
    þ Synchronet þ Freeway BBS, Bendigo Australia. freeway.apana.org.au
  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Daryl Stout on Thursday, September 03, 2020 12:48:05
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Daryl Stout to HusTler on Tue Sep 01 2020 10:21 pm

    That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in
    IRC at the same time lol

    Years ago, there was one at a local Denny's. One of the Sysops (he passed away several years ago) there had a fancy new laptop...and when he brought it out of its carrying bag, all conversation stopped, and all eyes moved to the table!! <G>

    I'll bet. You should see the ancient laptop I use lol. I'd probably drool all over the guys fancy new laptop. ;-)

    HusTler
    havens.synchro.net:23

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to HusTler on Friday, September 04, 2020 11:20:00
    Years ago, there was one at a local Denny's. One of the Sysops (he passed away several years ago) there had a fancy new laptop...and when he brought it out of its carrying bag, all conversation stopped, and all eyes moved to the table!! <G>

    I'll bet. You should see the ancient laptop I use lol. I'd probably drool all over the guys fancy new laptop. ;-)

    It was like you flipped a switch...it was like a collective "WOW!!" <G>.

    Daryl

    ... Gone Chopin. Made a Liszt. Back in a Minuet.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Gamgee on Thursday, September 03, 2020 06:55:00
    Gamgee wrote to Nightfox <=-

    One disadvantage to Discord, for me anyway, is that it (the
    application) requires you to be running a GUI on your OS of
    choice. I don't always have that available.

    Like every other chat platform out there, I'm pretty sure I saw an
    IRC to Discord bridge.


    The way I do IRC is that I have an Raspberry Pi running all the
    time, doing various things (DynDNS updater, small backup
    repository, and some others). It's headless and runs Linux.

    I usually run mIRC on the BBS box and remote into it. WHen I ran XP I
    used to remote into it for my DOS offline reader, too. Made it nice
    to have all the BBS stuff on one box.



    ... Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
    --- MultiMail/XT v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ realitycheckBBS -- http://realitycheckBBS.org
  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, September 06, 2020 08:54:00
    On 09-03-20 06:55, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Like every other chat platform out there, I'm pretty sure I saw an
    IRC to Discord bridge.

    One way to get the best of both worlds. :) For text, IRC and Discord are a pretty good match.


    ... The worst blow to civilization since the sack of Rome by the Huns.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.51
    þ Synchronet þ Freeway BBS, Bendigo Australia. freeway.apana.org.au
  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Vk3jed on Sunday, September 06, 2020 09:09:34
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Vk3jed to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Sep 06 2020 08:54 am

    One way to get the best of both worlds. :) For text, IRC and Discord are a pretty good match.

    Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two cents anyway. ;-)

    HusTler
    havens.synchro.net:23

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to HusTler on Monday, September 07, 2020 19:39:00
    On 09-06-20 09:09, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with
    rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where
    as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two
    cents anyway. ;-)

    IRC is good when there's active chat (and I do miss that side of IRC), but as a messaging system, it doesn't work for me. Jumping through hoops with screen, etc, doesn't do it for me. :(


    ... I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.51
    þ Synchronet þ Freeway BBS, Bendigo Australia. freeway.apana.org.au
  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Vk3jed on Monday, September 07, 2020 10:34:45
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Mon Sep 07 2020 07:39 pm

    IRC is good when there's active chat (and I do miss that side of IRC), but a messaging system, it doesn't work for me. Jumping through hoops with screen etc, doesn't do it for me. :(

    Yea. It's too bad BBS SysOps don't use IRC much. I mean for general chit chat. There's also MRC . There are meets on Fri and Sat night. MarisaG has a synchronetbbs fan discord server. Same thing there. Whenever I stop by nobody is home. I suppose if I hung around long enough I'd run into somebody. All of the social media outlets have chat services. Maybe that's the problem? Too many choices?? ;-)

    HusTler
    havens.synchro.net:23

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Monday, September 07, 2020 18:43:06
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue Sep 01 2020 10:36 pm

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.

    Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC

    So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients without having multiple nicks.

    digital man

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to HusTler on Monday, September 07, 2020 19:59:00
    HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    IRC is good when there's active chat (and I do miss that side of IRC), but a messaging system, it doesn't work for me. Jumping through hoops with screen etc, doesn't do it for me. :(

    Yea. It's too bad BBS SysOps don't use IRC much.

    Well, they do... The #synchronet channel on irc.synchro.net is
    quite active, including all of the major developers.



    ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Monday, September 07, 2020 22:09:21
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Sep 07 2020 06:43 pm

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels
    locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.

    Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC

    So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients without having multiple nicks.

    Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.

    Nightfox

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to HusTler on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 14:28:00
    On 09-07-20 10:34, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Yea. It's too bad BBS SysOps don't use IRC much. I mean for general
    chit chat. There's also MRC . There are meets on Fri and Sat night. MarisaG has a synchronetbbs fan discord server. Same thing there.
    Whenever I stop by nobody is home. I suppose if I hung around long
    enough I'd run into somebody. All of the social media outlets have chat services. Maybe that's the problem? Too many choices?? ;-)

    Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's big strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.


    ... Purranoia: the fear one's cats are up to something.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.51
    þ Synchronet þ Freeway BBS, Bendigo Australia. freeway.apana.org.au
  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 07:11:50
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Sep 07 2020 10:09 pm

    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Sep 07 2020 06:43 pm

    On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels
    locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.

    Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC

    So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients
    without having multiple nicks.

    Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.

    if you have used irc you have seen someone using one.
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Nightfox on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 09:49:12
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Sep 07 2020 10:09 pm

    Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC

    So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients without having multiple nicks.

    Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.

    Some guys at work wrote IRC bots. Some were pretty cool. Card games, Trivia. We were into exchanging warez on IRC. We all had accounts with over 500 megs of space. I think my HD at home was 20 megs. HD space was costly back then. With IRC you could transfer megs of software. Microsoft office was 26 disks. 1 of 26, 2 of 26 etc. Then of course it went to CD's. They would write bots that Dled files to different machines. Crazy stuff. I learned a lot editing those scripts.

    HusTler
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Vk3jed on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 10:02:17
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Tue Sep 08 2020 02:28 pm

    Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's big strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.

    Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.

    HusTler
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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to HusTler on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 15:15:34
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Vk3jed on Tue Sep 08 2020 10:02 am

    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Tue Sep 08 2020 02:28 pm

    Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's bi strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.

    Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form chat may be hazardous to ones health.

    HusTler
    havens.synchro.net:23


    Well, that could also happen to you via DoveNET, you know...

    I have met a lot of hot women on IRC but I always have the shadow of doubt hovering around. Why if this gal is actually a Communist guy trying to sell me to the FSB or something?

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to HusTler on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 14:55:00
    On 09-08-20 10:02, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.

    I've done alright out of chat - many friends and even a (eventually!) husband, who I met by chance in a chatroom. :)


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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Arelor on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 11:50:42
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Arelor to HusTler on Tue Sep 08 2020 03:15 pm

    Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any
    form chat may be hazardous to ones health.


    Well, that could also happen to you via DoveNET, you know...

    I have met a lot of hot women on IRC but I always have the shadow of doubt hovering around. Why if this gal is actually a Communist guy trying to sell to the FSB or something?

    I had began talking to this woman on the phone (Met her on hangouts). I thought it would turn into something real. When she began asking for money and gifts I relized I was being scammed. I don't see myself meeting woman on Dovenet but I'll be carefull not to send anyone on Dovenet any monetary gifts. Or a new pair of panties lol

    HusTler
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to HusTler on Thursday, September 10, 2020 17:57:42
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Arelor on Wed Sep 09 2020 11:50 am


    I had began talking to this woman on the phone (Met her on hangouts). I thought it would turn into something real. When she began asking for money and gifts I relized I was being scammed. I don't see myself meeting woman on Dovenet but I'll be carefull not to send anyone on Dovenet any monetary gifts. Or a new pair of panties lol


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to HusTler on Thursday, September 10, 2020 18:14:18
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: HusTler to Vk3jed on Tue Sep 08 2020 10:02 am

    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Tue Sep 08 2020 02:28 pm

    Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's
    big
    strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.

    Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.

    Oh, but did you get to be on that show on MTV?!? :-)

    digital man

    This Is Spinal Tap quote #27:
    As long as there's, y'know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll. Norco, CA WX: 77.8øF, 33.0% humidity, 2 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to MRO on Friday, September 11, 2020 08:28:18
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: MRO to HusTler on Thu Sep 10 2020 05:57 pm

    meeting woman on Dovenet but I'll be carefull not to send anyone on Dovenet any monetary gifts. Or a new pair of panties lol


    there are no women on dovenet.

    That was my point. lol

    HusTler
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Digital Man on Friday, September 11, 2020 08:32:46
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Digital Man to HusTler on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:14 pm

    Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any
    form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.

    Oh, but did you get to be on that show on MTV?!? :-)

    No but it demonstrates how disconnected I am from the online world. I never heard of the term "catfished" yet alone a TV show until it happened to me. That's what I get for venturing out of BBS land. ;-)

    HusTler
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  • From Hakuchi@VERT to HusTler on Friday, September 11, 2020 21:01:00
    HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with
    rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where
    as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two
    cents anyway. ;-)

    Also one must remember that discothingie desktop app is scanning your things
    all the time. It's no no in my house. I notised that their web-thingie behaves much more better. But still, if not really needed, one wont go there.
    All that nonsense for what? To tranfer some lines of text between people? Yes IRC is much much better for that. Sure one can share some pictures and whatnot on disco-thingie, but why?
    I think most of us have managed to share those things before ... right?


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Friday, September 11, 2020 13:41:00
    there are no women on dovenet.

    That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope she is
    doing ok.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Friday, September 11, 2020 22:45:37
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Fri Sep 11 2020 01:41 pm

    there are no women on dovenet.

    That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope she is doing ok.


    * SLMR 2.1a * Some men are discovered; others are found out.

    maybe mariag is a dude too. there's a few trans sysops
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:13:00
    there are no women on dovenet.

    That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope she is doing ok.

    maybe mariag is a dude too. there's a few trans sysops

    Well, either way, I have not seen Marisag post in quite a while, here or on gamenet.


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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Saturday, September 12, 2020 11:24:00
    well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are
    you an important celebrity?

    with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt
    gone. it's just the way it is.

    if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts
    with all the scrolling. ---

    It used to be that way back in the 90ties. 30-50 people active on a channel and non stop talking.

    Maybe that's exactly what people miss when refer to IRC?



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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to HusTler on Saturday, September 12, 2020 20:40:00
    Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with
    rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where
    as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two
    cents anyway. ;-)

    It's slow and clunky because this is Javascript application embedded into an exe package. So to run itself it needs the whole webkit engine from chrome being instantiated in the background, including lots of stuff that you don't actually need.

    It's slowliness is not related to the network bandwidth as much as how much resources from your local computer it consumed being so terribly unoptimized desktop app.

    I use Discord, where there is live it's just next-gen IRC to me. But I use it only in a browser as a web app, bookmarked. I killed the destkop app, same with Slack, which comes with similar performance story.

    What makes it posisitve to use Discord comparing to IRC is that you're not exposing your host while being connected. which may be important for cybersec related reasons.

    ANd you don't need *nix shell with screen app to keep your session alive forever to scrollback for events you've missed being away.

    Best,
    /h1





    HusTler
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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Nightfox on Saturday, September 12, 2020 21:02:00
    Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.

    I'm rereading about them too as I've thought its only a proxy to conceal your true ip while connected, not exactly a background session.

    /h1
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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Vk3jed on Saturday, September 12, 2020 21:04:00
    Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's
    big strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards
    intermittent chat.

    Irc was more about live expererience, here and now.
    Or about reading the log from the past and responding, more like usenet but in a chatty way.. or mixed kind of experience I'm turning myself back here while answering to your messages via offline mode and then uploading.

    /h1
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Saturday, September 12, 2020 15:11:08
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Sep 12 2020 10:13 am

    there are no women on dovenet.

    That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope
    she is doing ok.

    maybe mariag is a dude too. there's a few trans sysops

    Well, either way, I have not seen Marisag post in quite a while, here or


    i thought marisag just posted talking about living in some type of assisted care facility


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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to hollowone on Sunday, September 13, 2020 00:37:47
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: hollowone to MRO on Sat Sep 12 2020 11:24 am

    well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away.
    are you an important celebrity?

    with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the
    keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if
    person 1 isnt gone. it's just the way it is.

    It used to be that way back in the 90ties. 30-50 people active on a channel and non stop talking.

    Maybe that's exactly what people miss when refer to IRC?

    There's still IRC channels like that, they're just few and far between.

    DaiTengu

    ... The cause of problems are solutions!

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to hollowone on Sunday, September 13, 2020 00:41:54
    Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
    By: hollowone to HusTler on Sat Sep 12 2020 08:40 pm

    It's slow and clunky because this is Javascript application embedded into an exe package. So to run itself it needs the whole webkit engine from chrome being instantiated in the background, including lots of stuff that you don't actually need.

    It's slowliness is not related to the network bandwidth as much as how much resources from your local computer it consumed being so terribly unoptimized desktop app.

    I use Discord, where there is live it's just next-gen IRC to me. But I use it only in a browser as a web app, bookmarked. I killed the destkop app, same with Slack, which comes with similar performance story.

    I don't have a problem running Discord (and I'm connected to about 20 servers, some are quite active) and Slack at the same time. It's not an issue on my laptop, which runs Linux, nor my desktop, which runs Win10.


    I spend a lot of time in Discord, and Slack is required for work.

    What makes it posisitve to use Discord comparing to IRC is that you're not exposing your host while being connected. which may be important for cybersec related reasons.

    Some people like the voice chat stuff in Discord, I rarely use it. I do make liberal use of gif posting, though!

    DaiTengu

    ... Government corruption seems always to be reported in the past tense.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to hollowone on Sunday, September 13, 2020 18:51:00
    On 09-12-20 21:04, hollowone wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    Irc was more about live expererience, here and now.

    That's how I used IRC - very much in the moment. :)

    Or about reading the log from the past and responding, more like usenet but in a chatty way.. or mixed kind of experience I'm turning myself
    back here while answering to your messages via offline mode and then uploading.

    Yeah, I was less into the delayed IRC chat, I usually missed those I wanted to chatch. IRC was always a real time medium for me. Logs were for settling disputes or trying to work out when people were on...


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