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    From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to All on Thu Sep 12 23:34:04 2019
    I'm trying to gate my SFnet into a QWK type network to give Sysops an option other than FTN, but am having some problems.

    If anyone can help me (there's nothing I could find in the Mystic WIKI about this), please Contact me via either Discord (Chalupy#9138) or Telegram (@L_Furmen). Thanks in advance.

    -Dallas Vinson

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Lupine Furmen on Thu Sep 12 21:49:38 2019
    I'm trying to gate my SFnet into a QWK type network to give Sysops an option other than FTN, but am having some problems.

    If anyone can help me (there's nothing I could find in the Mystic WIKI about this), please Contact me via either Discord (Chalupy#9138) or Telegram (@L_Furmen). Thanks in advance.

    As far as I know Synchronet is the only BBS package that can do this. You would
    need to have SBBS setup yourself to do this, or if you have any nodes running SBBS and they are willing.. they could do it.

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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Lupine Furmen on Fri Sep 13 01:01:26 2019
    I'm trying to gate my SFnet into a QWK type network to give Sysops an option other than FTN, but am having some problems.

    If anyone can help me (there's nothing I could find in the Mystic WIKI about this), please Contact me via either Discord (Chalupy#9138) or Telegram (@L_Furmen). Thanks in advance.

    Mystic's QWK hub feature isn't complete yet. You can join a QWK network, but not run a QWK network.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Lupine Furmen on Fri Sep 13 20:12:00 2019
    On 09-12-19 23:34, Lupine Furmen wrote to All <=-

    I'm trying to gate my SFnet into a QWK type network to give Sysops an option other than FTN, but am having some problems.

    If anyone can help me (there's nothing I could find in the Mystic WIKI about this), please Contact me via either Discord (Chalupy#9138) or Telegram (@L_Furmen). Thanks in advance.

    I'd suggest using Synchronet for that job. I'm not on SFNet, but happy to join and offer QWK services from my Synchronet system.. I already gate a number of nets in both directions. Adding one more is no big deal. Feel free to netmail me or email vk3jed@vkradio.com .


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  • From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to Netsurge on Fri Sep 13 09:38:24 2019
    I'm trying to gate my SFnet into a QWK type network to give Sysops an option other than FTN, but am having some problems.

    If anyone can help me (there's nothing I could find in the Mystic WIK about this), please Contact me via either Discord (Chalupy#9138) or Telegram (@L_Furmen). Thanks in advance.

    Mystic's QWK hub feature isn't complete yet. You can join a QWK network, but not run a QWK network.

    Lovely, then I guess Furmen's Folly will be joining SFnet and act as the gateway between the two network types.

    Come on G00R00, get this stuff done!! :P

    -Dallas Vinson

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  • From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to Vk3jed on Fri Sep 13 09:39:52 2019
    I'd suggest using Synchronet for that job. I'm not on SFNet, but happy
    to join and offer QWK services from my Synchronet system.. I already
    gate a number of nets in both directions. Adding one more is no big
    deal. Feel free to netmail me or email vk3jed@vkradio.com .

    Appreciate the offer, but One of my systems is a synchro board.

    -Dallas Vinson

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    * Origin: Before the Web (21:4/102)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Netsurge on Sat Sep 14 07:30:02 2019
    On 13 Sep 2019 at 01:01a, Netsurge pondered and said...

    Mystic's QWK hub feature isn't complete yet. You can join a QWK network, but not run a QWK network.

    I have not played this in Mystic, have stuck to FTN stuff thus far, which
    bit is missing Frank? is it some of the HUBing stuff?

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Lupine Furmen on Sat Sep 14 07:31:26 2019
    On 13 Sep 2019 at 09:38a, Lupine Furmen pondered and said...

    Come on G00R00, get this stuff done!! :P

    Has been inactive since around March, but will no doubt appear again as/when time permits and energies prevail.

    -Dallas Vinson

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    Can I suggest you update to the latest version... it would be worth doing for the bug fixes etc. alone

    Best, Paul

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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Avon on Fri Sep 13 15:53:26 2019
    I have not played this in Mystic, have stuck to FTN stuff thus far, which bit is missing Frank? is it some of the HUBing stuff?

    g00r00 has the options setup but has yet to actually implement the routines
    to hub out the traffic.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Lupine Furmen on Sat Sep 14 06:35:00 2019
    On 09-13-19 09:39, Lupine Furmen wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I'd suggest using Synchronet for that job. I'm not on SFNet, but happy
    to join and offer QWK services from my Synchronet system.. I already
    gate a number of nets in both directions. Adding one more is no big
    deal. Feel free to netmail me or email vk3jed@vkradio.com .

    Appreciate the offer, but One of my systems is a synchro board.

    Looks like you have it covered then, but just in case, the offer still stands.


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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Lupine Furmen on Fri Sep 13 18:43:46 2019
    Lupine Furmen wrote to All <=-

    I'm trying to gate my SFnet into a QWK type network to give Sysops an option other than FTN, but am having some problems.

    If anyone can help me (there's nothing I could find in the Mystic WIKI about this), please Contact me via either Discord (Chalupy#9138) or Telegram (@L_Furmen). Thanks in advance.


    I agree with others that Synchronet is the way to go, and finding someone
    on the network that is running synchronet that is willing to bridge it is probably easiest.

    BTW, how does one join SFnet?



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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Avon on Fri Sep 13 18:40:10 2019
    On 14 Sep 2019, Avon said the following...

    Mystic's QWK hub feature isn't complete yet. You can join a QWK netwo but not run a QWK network.

    I have not played this in Mystic, have stuck to FTN stuff thus far, which bit is missing Frank? is it some of the HUBing stuff?

    I tried setting it up on this end as well, to gate between FTN<>QWK, and
    wasn't able to get it working. That's why I ended up setting up Synchronet,
    as the gating is pretty simple to set up.


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Blue White on Sat Sep 14 15:41:00 2019
    On 09-13-19 18:43, Blue White wrote to Lupine Furmen <=-


    I agree with others that Synchronet is the way to go, and finding
    someone on the network that is running synchronet that is willing to bridge it is probably easiest.

    BTW, how does one join SFnet?

    I'd be interested too. )


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  • From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to Avon on Sat Sep 14 00:48:58 2019
    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/32)
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    Can I suggest you update to the latest version... it would be worth
    doing for the bug fixes etc. alone

    Thanks Paul, I thought I had updated all three of my mystic installs, but
    looks like I missed one. :) Will get that taken care of sometime this weekend.

    -Dallas Vinson

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  • From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to Netsurge on Sat Sep 14 00:50:36 2019
    I have not played this in Mystic, have stuck to FTN stuff thus far, w bit is missing Frank? is it some of the HUBing stuff?

    g00r00 has the options setup but has yet to actually implement the routines to hub out the traffic.

    There is also no options on the user side to tell mystic that the account is being setup for use as a QWK network connection. That can only be set in the User Editor on the sysop side.

    -Dallas Vinson

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  • From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to Blue White on Sat Sep 14 00:52:50 2019
    BTW, how does one join SFnet?

    You can log onto either of my boards and the info packet should be in the
    file section. It SHOULD be on both systems, but for sure on Legends of Yesteryear (loybbs.net:23322)

    -Dallas Vinson

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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Lupine Furmen on Sat Sep 14 02:18:22 2019
    There is also no options on the user side to tell mystic that the
    account is being setup for use as a QWK network connection. That can
    only be set in the User Editor on the sysop side.

    True.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Lupine Furmen on Sat Sep 14 20:09:50 2019
    On 14 Sep 2019 at 12:48a, Lupine Furmen pondered and said...

    Thanks Paul, I thought I had updated all three of my mystic installs, but looks like I missed one. :) Will get that taken care of sometime this weekend.

    All good Dallas... I just figured there may be something in the more recent version that could help, but perhaps not, still would be worth it for the bug fixes etc.

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  • From Lupine Furmen@21:4/102 to Avon on Sat Dec 14 14:01:32 2019
    Hey Paul, any chance we might could get a video explaining and showing how to set up and run a QWK Hub on Mystic?
    ---

    -Dallas Vinson

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  • From Black Panther@21:1/186 to Lupine Furmen on Sat Dec 14 13:04:10 2019
    On 14 Dec 2019, Lupine Furmen said the following...

    Hey Paul, any chance we might could get a video explaining and showing
    how to set up and run a QWK Hub on Mystic?

    Hi Dallas,

    The last time I tried to set up Mystic as a QWK hub, there were some issues that still needed to be sorted out. I think g00r00 was going to work on them, but I don't think he has yet...


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Black Panther on Sun Dec 15 18:17:00 2019
    On 12-14-19 13:04, Black Panther wrote to Lupine Furmen <=-

    Hi Dallas,

    The last time I tried to set up Mystic as a QWK hub, there were some issues that still needed to be sorted out. I think g00r00 was going to work on them, but I don't think he has yet...

    That's what I thought too. Synchronet is generally the BBS of choice for QWK hubs these days. It's fairly straightforward to setup.


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Lupine Furmen on Thu Dec 26 10:02:50 2019
    On 14 Dec 2019 at 02:01p, Lupine Furmen pondered and said...

    Hey Paul, any chance we might could get a video explaining and showing
    how to set up and run a QWK Hub on Mystic?

    Yep will add to my TO-DO but to be honest it will be down the list a bit.
    It's not something I have really set up and used myself so not really in a
    good position to do a video on it as yet. I also understand some things may
    not be ready in Mystic from a HUB point of view...

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Avon on Wed Dec 25 13:17:58 2019
    Yep will add to my TO-DO but to be honest it will be down the list a bit. It's not something I have really set up and used myself so not really in
    a good position to do a video on it as yet. I also understand some
    things may not be ready in Mystic from a HUB point of view...

    Yeah, I seem to recall qwk networking similar to synchronet wasn't something Mystic could support at this time.

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  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Avon on Thu Dec 26 00:14:36 2019
    Yep will add to my TO-DO but to be honest it will be down the list a bit. It's not something I have really set up and used myself so not really in
    a good position to do a video on it as yet. I also understand some
    things may not be ready in Mystic from a HUB point of view...

    You are correct, James has already stated that it doesn't work at all yet.

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