|10On 30 Jan 2019, Ruben Figueroa said the following...|10

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.
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Made it here to Mystic Prison BBS

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
Mystic Prison Board Sysop
telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
Web: www.rdfig.net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/30 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Mystic Prison Board*Mesquite Tx*pb.darktech.org:24 (1:124/5014)

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.
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Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to All on Wed Jan 30 2019 06:37 pm

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.

Am I the first one to inform you that you just cross-posted thousands of USENET
spam and other off-topic messages into dozens of FidoNet echoes? :-(

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #55:
SCFG = Synchronet Configuration Utility
Norco, CA WX: 51.6øF, 96.0% humidity, 0 mph WSW wind, 0.42 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

31 Jan 19 18:07, Rob Swindell wrote to Ruben Figueroa:

Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to All on Wed Jan 30 2019 06:37 pm

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.

Am I the first one to inform you that you just cross-posted thousands of USENET spam and other off-topic messages into dozens of FidoNet echoes? :-(

I tried to netmail you... Please fix your mailer.

=== Cut ===
01 Feb 09:39:00 [2860] call to 1:124/5013@fidonet
01 Feb 09:39:00 [2860] trying rdfig.net via proxy 192.168.1.16:8118...
01 Feb 09:39:00 [2860] connected
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] outgoing session with rdfig.net:24554
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] OPT CRAM-MD5-cafebabecafebabecafebabecafebabe
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] Remote requests MD mode
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] WWIVVER 5.4.0.2886 (Aug 26 2018, 10:46:30)
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] SYS WWIV PRISON BBS
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] ZYZ Ruben Figueroa
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] VER networkb/5.4.0.2886 binkp/1.0
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] LOC Unknown
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] WWIV @101.wwivnet
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] no AKAs in common domains or all AKAs are busy
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] done (to 1:124/5013@fidonet, failed, S/R: 0/0 (0/0
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] session closed, quitting...
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'Tommi

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Ruben Figueroa wrote to All <=-

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.
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* Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013)

And, here's where the mail apocalypse of 2019 started...



... Do you ever see inconsistencies in your world?
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|10On 31 Jan 2019, Rob Swindell said the following...|10

Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to All on Wed Jan 30 2019 06:37 pm

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.

Am I the first one to inform you that you just cross-posted thousands of USENET spam and other off-topic messages into dozens of FidoNet echoes? :-(

No and you probably won't be the last. I had redone my WildCat Message bases and that is where they came from. It dumped the same garbage onto my Mystic BBS. So I saw it right away. I have not seen any more dumps.

Again sorry guys.

Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz
Mystic Prison Board Sysop
telnet://pb.darktech.org:24
Web: www.rdfig.net

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2018/12/30 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Mystic Prison Board*Mesquite Tx*pb.darktech.org:24 (1:124/5014)

On 2019 Jan 30 18:37:26, you wrote to All:

@TID: PX/Win v3.1 PX20-1127M
@MSGID: 1:124/5013 38656a3c
@TZUTC: -0600
Testing new mail setup for this bbs.

yep, it came through with a lot (3000+) of regurges in ~10 echos areas... mailing lists and some that appears to be private emails... did you restore and use an old QWK configuration with old message area numbers?

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SEEN-BY: 1/100 19/33 35 103/705 124/5013 5014 5015 5016 130/230 803

154/10

SEEN-BY: 203/0 221/0 6 360 229/275 426 240/1120 1661 5832 261/38 280/464 2000
SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5555 310/31 320/119 219 387/21 396/45 423/120 640/1384 SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/12 31999/99 116/116 123/25 150 755 SEEN-BY: 135/300 153/7715 154/10 261/38 3634/15 24 27 50 119 123/50 115 SEEN-BY: 3634/12 0 18/0 123/0 1/120
@PATH: 124/5013 5014 396/45 280/464 5555 221/6 0 640/1384 3634/12

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No and you probably won't be the last. I had redone my WildCat Message bases and that is where they came from. It dumped the same garbage onto my Mystic BBS. So I saw it right away. I have not seen any more dumps.

Again sorry guys.

It happens, not the end of the world :)

I am sure Rob remembers how Mystic had this lovely bug when I enabled QWKnet/Fido gating where it was flooding DoveNet with hundreds of dupe messages
in every QWK packet. Glad to see someone trying to one up my error! ;) (sorry Rob!)

A while back we had a PCBoard setup on fsxNet dump thousands of messages back into the network and they were all slightly modified so they didn't get detected as duplicates. It happens.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 2019/01/31 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Sector 7 [Mystic BBS WHQ] (1:129/215)

Re: Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to Rob Swindell on Fri Feb 01 2019 07:42 am

|10On 31 Jan 2019, Rob Swindell said the following...|10

Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to All on Wed Jan 30 2019 06:37 pm

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.

Am I the first one to inform you that you just cross-posted thousands of USENET spam and other off-topic messages into dozens of FidoNet echoes? :-(

No and you probably won't be the last. I had redone my WildCat Message bases and that is where they came from. It dumped the same garbage onto my Mystic BBS. So I saw it right away. I have not seen any more dumps.

Again sorry guys.

While you're fixing things, how about reducing the number of ads you post to the Fido BBS_ADS area? You don't need a new ad posted every. single. day. :-)

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #72:
Synchronet CIOXTRN (created by Deuce) is a 32-bit replacement for DOORWAY. Norco, CA WX: 59.0øF, 77.0% humidity, 3 mph ESE wind, 0.07 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

Re: Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: James Coyle to Ruben Figueroa on Fri Feb 01 2019 04:06 pm

I am sure Rob remembers how Mystic had this lovely bug when I enabled QWKnet/Fido gating where it was flooding DoveNet with hundreds of dupe messages in every QWK packet. Glad to see someone trying to one up my error! ;) (sorry Rob!)

Already forgotten. :-)

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #78:
Synchronet Match Maker had at one time over 4000 profiles of men and women. Norco, CA WX: 59.0øF, 77.0% humidity, 3 mph ESE wind, 0.07 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

--- Original Message ---
Date: Jan 30, 2019 18:43:26
From: Ruben Figueroa
To: All
Subj: WildCat Prison BBS

@TID: PX/Win v3.1 PX20-1127M
@MSGID: 1:124/5013 38656a3c
@TZUTC: -0600
Testing new mail setup for this bbs.
-!- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1
# Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013)
--- End of Original Message ---

Looks like it made it here! :)

... Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@winserver.org>, Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
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On Feb 01, 2019 09:40am, Tommi Koivula wrote to Ruben Figueroa:

I tried to netmail you... Please fix your mailer.

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01 Feb 09:39:00 [2860] call to 1:124/5013@fidonet
01 Feb 09:39:00 [2860] trying rdfig.net via proxy 192.168.1.16:8118...
01 Feb 09:39:00 [2860] connected
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] outgoing session with rdfig.net:24554
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] OPT CRAM-MD5-cafebabecafebabecafebabecafebabe
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] Remote requests MD mode
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] WWIVVER 5.4.0.2886 (Aug 26 2018, 10:46:30)
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] SYS WWIV PRISON BBS
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] ZYZ Ruben Figueroa
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] VER networkb/5.4.0.2886 binkp/1.0
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] LOC Unknown
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] WWIV @101.wwivnet
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] no AKAs in common domains or all AKAs are busy
01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] done (to 1:124/5013@fidonet, failed, S/R: 0/0
(0/0 01 Feb 09:39:01 [2860] session closed, quitting...
=== Cut ===

Yeah, same here. He is on at least one of my othernets and IREX can't seem to deliver mail packets to Ruben because of this.

... Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@winserver.org>, Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
* Origin: Omicron Theta (1:116/17)

On Feb 01, 2019 06:10am, Kurt Weiske wrote to Ruben Figueroa:

Ruben Figueroa wrote to All <=-

Testing new mail setup for this bbs.
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1
* Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www.
(1:124/5013)

And, here's where the mail apocalypse of 2019 started...

ROTFLMAO!!!

... Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@winserver.org>, Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
* Origin: Omicron Theta (1:116/17)

On Feb 01, 2019 07:48am, Ruben Figueroa wrote to Rob Swindell:

Am I the first one to inform you that you just cross-posted thousands
of
USENET spam and other off-topic messages into dozens of FidoNet echoes?
:-(

No and you probably won't be the last. I had redone my WildCat Message bases and that is where they came from. It dumped the same garbage
onto my Mystic BBS. So I saw it right away. I have not seen any more dumps.

Again sorry guys.

Stuff happens. But, this is where wcReports comes in handy -- lets you easily clean out your message base files before something like this happens :)

... Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@winserver.org>, Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
* Origin: Omicron Theta (1:116/17)

On Feb 01, 2019 03:18pm, Rob Swindell wrote to James Coyle:

Synchronet "Real Fact" #78:
Synchronet Match Maker had at one time over 4000 profiles of men and women. Norco, CA WX: 59.0øF, 77.0% humidity, 3 mph ESE wind, 0.07
inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux

I know I can do the "Real Fact" thing easily enough for WINServer, but how are you pulling current weather conditions? Might be nice to write a mod like that
as my first release as a Phenom member ;)

... Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@winserver.org>, Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
* Origin: Omicron Theta (1:116/17)

Re: Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Robert Wolfe to Rob Swindell on Sun Feb 03 2019 12:41 pm

On Feb 01, 2019 03:18pm, Rob Swindell wrote to James Coyle:

Synchronet "Real Fact" #78:
Synchronet Match Maker had at one time over 4000 profiles of men and women. Norco, CA WX: 59.0øF, 77.0% humidity, 3 mph ESE wind, 0.07 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux

I know I can do the "Real Fact" thing easily enough for WINServer, but how are you pulling current weather conditions? Might be nice to write a mod like that as my first release as a Phenom member ;)

I have a weather station (a Davis Instruments Vantage VUE, you can't get as-good weather stations these days for much less at Costco) - anyway, it stores data on the PC (as well as pushing it to wunderground.org) and I just have a timed event that pulls the data from the weather data file and amends my
signature file, periodically.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #63:
"Baja" (name of Synchronet PCMS compiler/languege) is pronounced "ba-ha". Norco, CA WX: 51.4øF, 95.0% humidity, 1 mph NNW wind, 0.39 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

On Feb 03, 2019 03:16pm, Rob Swindell wrote to Robert Wolfe:

I know I can do the "Real Fact" thing easily enough for WINServer, but
how
are you pulling current weather conditions? Might be nice to write a mod
like that as my first release as a Phenom member ;)

I have a weather station (a Davis Instruments Vantage VUE, you can't get as-good weather stations these days for much less at Costco) - anyway,
it stores data on the PC (as well as pushing it to wunderground.org)
and I just have a timed event that pulls the data from the weather data file and amends my signature file, periodically.

Oh, ok, very cool! :)

... Robert Wolfe <robert.wolfe@winserver.org>, Sysop, Omicron Theta BBS
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
* Origin: Omicron Theta (1:116/17)

Re: Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Robert Wolfe to Rob Swindell on Sun Feb 03 2019 07:24 pm

On Feb 03, 2019 03:16pm, Rob Swindell wrote to Robert Wolfe:

I know I can do the "Real Fact" thing easily enough for WINServer, but
how
are you pulling current weather conditions? Might be nice to write a mod
like that as my first release as a Phenom member ;)

I have a weather station (a Davis Instruments Vantage VUE, you can't get as-good weather stations these days for much less at Costco) -

I meant to type: you *can* get as-good weather stations these days for much less ...

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #44:
NAPLPS = North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax (ANSI X3.110)
Norco, CA WX: 49.9øF, 95.0% humidity, 1 mph SE wind, 0.06 inches rain/24hrs
--- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

It happens, not the end of the world :)

I am sure Rob remembers how Mystic had this lovely bug when I enabled QWKnet/Fido gating where it was flooding DoveNet with hundreds of dupe

messages

in every QWK packet. Glad to see someone trying to one up my error! ;)

(sorry

Rob!)

A while back we had a PCBoard setup on fsxNet dump thousands of messages

back

into the network and they were all slightly modified so they didn't get detected as duplicates. It happens.

Well I did take drastic action. I killed all the message bases in
WildCat and rebuilt the message bases. I had corruption and couldn't
figure which fido message bases it was. Some of those message bases
dated back to 1990.

I just didn't want to take the chance of another flood.

Have a good day and Mystic is the best!
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1
* Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013)

While you're fixing things, how about reducing the number of ads you post

to

the Fido BBS_ADS area? You don't need a new ad posted every. single. day.

:-)

digital man

Didn't realize it was an issue. How about two day a week?
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1
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Stuff happens. But, this is where wcReports comes in handy -- lets you

easily

clean out your message base files before something like this happens :)

Now I know that.
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1
* Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013)

On 2019 Feb 04 08:06:30, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

While you're fixing things, how about reducing the number of ads you
post to the Fido BBS_ADS area? You don't need a new ad posted every.
single. day. :-)

Didn't realize it was an issue. How about two day a week?

maybe once a week? it is funny in a way that some systems post bbs ads "a lot" but they don't get new users from those ads... i mean, it isn't like previous ads are not available any more ;)

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Didn't realize it was an issue. How about two day a week?

maybe once a week? it is funny in a way that some systems post bbs ads "a

lot"

but they don't get new users from those ads... i mean, it isn't like

previous

ads are not available any more ;)

Does everyone feel that way? Is there a rule?

However it does not matter to me so I don't mind changing to once a
week.

but they don't get new users from those ads... i mean, it isn't like

previous

ads are not available any more ;)

According to this logic, why even advertise?
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Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to mark lewis on Mon Feb 04 2019 12:45 pm

Didn't realize it was an issue. How about two day a week?

maybe once a week? it is funny in a way that some systems post bbs ads

"a

lot"

but they don't get new users from those ads... i mean, it isn't like

previous

ads are not available any more ;)

Does everyone feel that way? Is there a rule?

However it does not matter to me so I don't mind changing to once a
week.

How about once a month?

but they don't get new users from those ads... i mean, it isn't like

previous

ads are not available any more ;)

According to this logic, why even advertise?

There's a big difference between zero advertisements and non-zero advertisements. I don't think anyone is suggest you don't advertise. But posting the exact same ad multiple times a month in a message area that only gets advertisements to begin with seems a bit excessive - like you're trying to
flood the area with *only* ads for *your* BBS. Then it becomes a competition among sysops: who can post ads the most frequently? Let's try not to go there is all I'm saying. You won! You can post the most frequent! Now, kindly slow it
down. Or not. Whatever. :-)

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #97:
Synchronet v3.12a was released on December 31st of 2004 (Rob's birthday). Norco, CA WX: 52.2øF, 90.0% humidity, 0 mph SW wind, 0.12 inches rain/24hrs
--- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

There's a big difference between zero advertisements and non-zero advertisements. I don't think anyone is suggest you don't advertise. But posting the exact same ad multiple times a month in a message area that

only

gets advertisements to begin with seems a bit excessive - like you're

trying
to

flood the area with *only* ads for *your* BBS. Then it becomes a

competition

among sysops: who can post ads the most frequently? Let's try not to go

there

is all I'm saying. You won! You can post the most frequent! Now, kindly

slow
it

down. Or not. Whatever. :-)

Yea I won.

Mystic sends it ot and I know I can set it for once a week. I'll check
for once a month. It is se for twice a week now.

ZSnyways, first I heard anyone had issues with all my ads until this
mishap (bad mishap).

I will, on your suggestion, will see i I can further reduce those ads.


That's I like Synchronet.
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Re: WildCat Prison BBS
By: Ruben Figueroa to Rob Swindell on Mon Feb 04 2019 04:13 pm

That's I like Synchronet.

:-)

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #67:
TTY = Teletype (dumb terminal)
Norco, CA WX: 50.1øF, 90.0% humidity, 1 mph NNW wind, 0.16 inches rain/24hrs --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
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