Post by Fjolsvith AasePost by Ryan P.That would be great. Hopefully he (or one of you) will put up a
change log so the rest of us can see whats happening.
Glad Dan was still out there somewhere!
The new version, 5.21a, has a couple of neat new features. One is called JoinLink, which allows CNet BBS's to have a combined chat conference room. Dan is planning on expanding this link connection to allow multi-bbs, multi-player door games and even allowing a user on one system to download files located on a different BBS.
Another is email integration. This will allow a new user to validate an account with their email address, which can remove the need for lots of user information gathering during new account creation. Also, it will allow the user to opt for email notification for various events that happen on the BBS.
It is now available for download on Dan's BBS. There are about 5 of us sysops running CNet again.
Dan's BBS is at telnet://fw2.cnetbbs.net:6800
Many people have disparaged Dan for not doing anything over the years, but he's making up for it now.
Back in the day, I remember when our local BBS had 3 or 4 different
systems joined up via Joinlink.
It would be nice to have integrated multi-bbs pfiles. In the waning
days of my BBS, a few of us local sysops experimented with getting a
multi-bbs CircleMUD installation, hosted by my BBS. Between us, we got
it working, but the server had a habit of just deciding it didn't want
to listen to incoming connections after a day or two.
Just think of the fun games of Global War and Empire and Tradewars 2000
that could become reality. :)