[nos-bbs] at kill all - dynamic forwarding

[wa7nwp]

> Forwarding naturally sorts out the various channels stations are heard 
> on for mail purposes.
> But if your use the "heard" lists for CONNECT activity sorting out 
> channel requires some mental gymnastics with clock time.
> 
> The best-fit solution might be a blend?
> For system management, perhaps all the ">>" should go into 
> logs/bandlog.txt without truncation.
> For user purposes then, "tail -200 logs/bandlog.txt > 
> public/heard_history.txt".
> That provides the JHEARD for on-channel, DOWNLOAD for the past day(?), 
> plus an administrative switch history log.


I hadn't thought of dynamic forwarding on a channel but it does 
certainly present an interesting concept.  Shouldn't be hard to listen 
for beacons of a predefined format and automatically configure 
forward.bbs and the at commands or other schedules to poll them.

Very neat idea...   It's things like this you can with with an open 
system like *NOS but can't do with some of those other "closed" systems. 
  This a big part of what Amateur Radio is about...

Onward!

73
Bill - WA7NWP