Text 117, 81 rader
Skriven 2004-08-07 12:06:34 av Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615.0)
    Kommentar till text 114 av Bo Simonsen (<41140edd)
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Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BS> G'day Roy,

> >  CS> Oh I can see how you would have that impression.  I use a laptop at
> >  CS> sea with emailed QWK packets in to read and reply back on.  That
> >  CS> one is a very simple WIN95 P100.
> >  CS>                                        xxcarol
> 
> > Emailed QWK packets?  Yikes.  <g>
> 
>  BS> Why not use TRANX or something then?
> 
> Dunno what that is...

 BS> It's emailed fido-pkts in short describtion.

Ok.

> Where have you been hiding?  I haven't seen you post for quite some time.

 BS> I've been coding most of the time, see the tearline and TID. :) 

 BS> I'm trying to be innovative, if you've read LINUX_BBS I were
 BS> annoucing  at a time that I were writing new fidonet software, with
 BS> new thoughts.

I do read that,  must have been a while ago.

 BS> Well the fundemental idea in the Alpha* project is that it should
 BS> store messages in a way, so you could easyly getting it without
 BS> using a smart API. My thoughs about the smart API, is that most
 BS> apis is codeded for one programming langauge, and often it's C. 

 BS> Programmers with scripting experience would never get down to the 
 BS> messages, so we have a stagnation in the developing of fidonet
 BS> software.  I'm using MYSQL for storage of messages, which allows
 BS> programming from  PHP, Perl, Python, <write your own list :)>.

 BS> In that way you'll be able to write a message tracker in perl, and
 BS> a  fancy web forum which could be distributed.

 BS> Now I'm pretty close to a alpha release, the package contains right
 BS> now: 

 BS> - A BBS - AlphaLink which I'm writing from, which is written in a
 BS> unix  way.
 BS> - A Fidonet fileticker
 BS> - A Fidonet mail processor
 BS> - A Fidonet mailer (a modified ifcico)
 BS> - Misc utilities like Messagebase packer, nodelist compiler. 

 BS> Nodelist, Configuration and "files.bbs" is also in MYSQL, to get
 BS> maximum flexiblity.

 BS> Damn what a story.. After working with MAX I got really tierd of
 BS> allways  having problems with Binary files, with mysql the platform
 BS> shouldn't matter.

 BS> I did also write it, because Fidonet got to that stage, where
 BS> people don't enjoy bbsing anymore, and most people are using
 BS> webforums. We could also gain some new users, because there has
 BS> not been any method to setup a distributed webforum until now. (I
 BS> know there is some php scripts, but not so organized as fidonet).

 BS> I'll keep it strictly on linux, but the SQL server could be running
 BS> on a windows machine.

Sounds good.  I have encountered one or two of those webforums,  and could see
where things might become more interesting if they were distributed,  rather
than simply hosted on one machine.

> How are things? 

 BS> They are fine after all, how about you? Life is good in
 BS> Pennsylvania? 

Mostly.  Can't complain,  nobody wants to hear it anyway.  :-)

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