Question regarding FTN Point addresses. Is a "Point" in "modern" terms essentially a user ID on a particular BBS?
E.g. if sending a NetMail to user "foo" at 1:170/918 who has the user ID of 15, their point is 15? and thus foo@1:170/919.15?
Maybe I'm mixing up things. I never had a NetMail address back in the
day, so ...
Question regarding FTN Point addresses. Is a "Point" in "modern" terms essentially a user ID on a particular BBS?
Question regarding FTN Point addresses. Is a "Point" in "modern" terms essentially a user ID on a particular BBS?
Question regarding FTN Point addresses. Is a "Point" in "modern" terms essentially a user ID on a particular BBS?
E.g. if sending a NetMail to user "foo" at 1:170/918 who has the user ID of 15, their point is 15? and thus foo@1:170/919.15?
Question regarding FTN Point addresses. Is a "Point" in "modern" terms essentially a user ID on a particular BBS?
Thanks everyone for your feedback on this, very helpful! I was under the assumption that a point automatically identified a end user, but it's
much more opaque than that.
A point is a system that handles mail through a boss node.
Nighthawk wrote to NuSkooler <=-
Back in the dial-up days, there were people that would like to use only the echomail part of the BBS, and they wanted to use their phone lines in an effective way, so they would set up points and get their
feed from a friendly BBS.
Thanks for the lengthy explination. I think I have everything squared
away at this point. I think the last part about people wanting direct NetMails is why I was thinking they were related to a user ID previously.
I used to run a point, so I couls automatically collect mail from 2 or 3 BBSs and have it there ready to read. I initially used Bluewave to read it through my Bluewave offline door, but eventually switched to using GoldEd.
Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I have, as of today, two point systems at the same laptop: One for FidoNET, running Crashmail/binkp/GoldED, and the other running Mystic,
in which I am replying to this message. :)
I have, as of today, two point systems at the same laptop: One fo FidoNET, running Crashmail/binkp/GoldED, and the other running Mystic in which I am replying to this message. :)
I use the BBSs as my base, and interact with them using offline mail.
Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I used to do that at the beginning, but started to experience those QWK-related bugs with Mystic (same message id that got fixed at A35),
so I had to be creative.
I had Synchronet, but since A35's bugfix has really made a difference to Mystic's QWK support, which has been rock solid since.
Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 02/07/18, Vk3jed said the following...
I had Synchronet, but since A35's bugfix has really made a difference to Mystic's QWK support, which has been rock solid since.
Indeed. Now I am having issues with a few JAM areas and lastread pointers.. I think I will just reset everything and try it again.
I had that issues with pre-A35 versions, but recent Mystic releases have been no issue for me with lastread pointers.
Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
For some weird reason, my two biggest message areas (from Fidonet
BR) are not storing the lastread pointers. I think I'll run some
message base maintenance tools and see what happens.
Sounds a little different to my issue. I found I was not getting all of the messages I should have been, and had to manually set the lastread pointers ack.
Nighthawk wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 02/15/18, Vk3jed said the following...
Sounds a little different to my issue. I found I was not getting all of the messages I should have been, and had to manually set the lastread pointers ack.
Yes, it is... Somehow I believe that in my cases both JAM areas got corrupted, I'll try to run some maintenance into it and see what
happens.
On 12-13-19 19:32, Havok wrote to Avon <=-
Question Paul
Do you do any QWK on you servers?
Question Paul
Do you do any QWK on you servers?
Thanks....
In short no, it's not something I have played with. Sorry.
If you're reading this, I got QWK working in Ghost!
If you're reading this, I got QWK working in Ghost!
If you're reading this, I got QWK working in Ghost!
apam wrote to All <=-
If you're reading this, I got QWK working in Ghost!
On 03-19-20 20:22, apam wrote to All <=-
If you're reading this, I got QWK working in Ghost!
If you're reading this, I got QWK working in Ghost!
Sysop: | Keyop |
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Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 286 |
Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
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