On 2019 Feb 18 20:16:36, you wrote to All:

I have another question regarding binkit.

ok...

I know with the BINKD daemon (redundancy alert!!) one can add an "include" statement to include other configuration files, such as the binkd.txt or similar file.

yes... i used to include binkd.txt followed by my myconnects.txt which had the session level passwords (and file boxes) set in it...

Does binkit allow for such inclusion of these binkd-styled nodelist files,

no...

or is that what the nodelist entry is in ECHOCFG?

no... that's for regular FTN St. Louis formatted nodelists... binkit doesn't use the binkd style nodelist...

so what you do is to put the normal nodelist somewhere and define that in echocfg... binkit should use the defined host/domain name from echocfg or, and i'm not totally sure about this (yet) it'll look up the node in the nodelist and use what it finds there for the connection... i've been planning to test this to be sure but i think i have at least one or two linked system definitions that i have not placed a connect domain in... all mail that arrives
here is delivered instead of being held so those ones appear to be working but again, i need to test further to be absolutely sure...

this is also tied into tickit in that for the FDN area definition that brings you TICs with nodelists, you can add a handler entry so that when the nodelist comes in and tickit processes it, it'll extract the nodelist from the archive and put it in the defined directory with the name you defined in echocfg... that'll automatically update the nodelist when it arrives...

I use to know how to do all that stuff back int he day using FrontDoor 2.12 and
SBBSecho, it seems a lot more complicated to setup now-a-days :/

I can barely keep up with Dove-Net let alone 10 million FTN conferences :-P

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On 2019 Feb 19 05:46:18, you wrote to David:

I use to know how to do all that stuff back int he day using FrontDoor 2.12 and SBBSecho, it seems a lot more complicated to setup now-a-days
:/

it isn't... it is just that sbbs isn't quite as homogenized as other FTN solutions... all the parts are there but one has to know about them and how to get them set up... i'd probably still be struggling a bit if it were for hosting max's sbbs setup starting back in 2015...

I can barely keep up with Dove-Net let alone 10 million FTN
conferences :-P

hahahaha... there's not that many echos in fidonet that have any traffic... i generally log into the BBS once a day to read unread messages sent to me... once a week i may read the posts via a new scan of the groups... some areas didn't take long to add to my bypass list ;)

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On 2019 Feb 19 05:46:18, you wrote to David:

I use to know how to do all that stuff back int he day using FrontDoor 2.12 and SBBSecho, it seems a lot more complicated to setup now-a-days :/

it isn't... it is just that sbbs isn't quite as homogenized as other FTN solutions... all the parts are there but one has to know about them and how to get them set up... i'd probably still be struggling a bit if it were for hosting max's sbbs setup starting back in 2015...

I can barely keep up with Dove-Net let alone 10 million FTN
conferences :-P

hahahaha... there's not that many echos in fidonet that have any traffic... i generally log into the BBS once a day to read unread messages sent to me... once a week i may read the posts via a new scan of the groups... some areas didn't take long to add to my bypass list ;)

huh! I think that is my point; though, nostalgia is a good thing for those to whom nostalgia applies, nostalgia is just that, nostalgia ... for me, instead of going through the arduous process of setting up an FTN node(s) for various traffic, I'd be just as happy to log.onto a board that has has the tenacity to do so :-P

Kudos, Brah

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