[nos-bbs] how to reply to a bulletin ?

[Alan Sieg WB5RMG]

I'm afraid that I can barely keep up with the discussion at hand,
unless of course, this is really something that should be considered
under a NNTP discussion.... maybe this really is a 'newsgroup' ala 1990.?.

area = <soapbox>

For one I have never heard or seen any reference to this abc at xyz format,
(as an area ?) let alone the questions of routing to neighboring IP-IP nodes.

Maybe I have been away tooooo long, as I have only returned to this list
for a 2 or 3 years now, and still struggle with some of the 'wormhole'
technique details...... That was only a fantasy back in the early 90s
when I ran JNOS on DOS (for ~6 years)... I figure, as much as I know about
packet and tcp/ip - it is no wonder that we have such limited success in
attracting new blood into the group.       Jus Sayn . . .

I'm all in favor of new and innovative ways to use our technology,
but if we can not keep good notes and spread the joy
 - what is it worth to anyone.?.   I see references now and then to
the JNOSwiki, but that seems to come and go. If I knew more I would
surely plow some info into such a repository. If there were an 'established'
convention/newsgroup 'Area' name/whatever . . . we will get better traction
if we focus our discussions/rants/secrets/tips into as small an area as
possible to allow the wannabes (like me) to easily find and learn from . . .
The more we spread it out, the harder it becomes to find the good stuff.

Let me encourage 'those who know' to share as much as possible.
I (and probably MANY more) would greatly appreciate any and everything
"you" can add to the knowledge base.

</soapbox>

  Hmm, I think my leftovers are ready to eat.   L8r Dudez...   /;^)





> Can we include the jnos nntp function in the discussion ?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 16, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Bill Vodall <wa7nwp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I've never understood if it was just not the way people did it or if
>>> it was simply that nobody is using packet.
>>
>> Not much use of packet anymore.  I did log into a remote BBS a couple
>> weeks ago and there was a surprising amount of TCPIP discussion
>> traffic.
>>
>>> Part of my issue is that I've found that basically no routing exists
>>> for the return path when the local nodes can see the bulletin as sent
>>> amusingly enough.
>>
>> Often the routing for bulletins is in the path name - for example
>> "nosbbs at pnw"  would be a general NOSBBS discussion for the Pacific
>> Northwest.   "nosbbs at ww" would be World Wide - aka everywhere.
>>
>>> One thing I've just never found yet is where to go to establish proper
>>> routing once I have a node up...i.e. is there a convention where
>>> someone maintains a global list of BBS nodes?  How would I know that
>>> so-and-so has a node in...whatever, say Fiji that I should have
>>> routing information for?
>>
>> We just route to our "neighbors" and pick the best neighbor to pass
>> all the rest (default) traffic to.   They route to their neighbors and
>> the messages can end up flooding around the world.
>>
>> 73
>> Bill - WA7NWP


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