Synchronet Onliner Wall has been down for a bit.
I think echicken is the hub for the oneliner wall if I remeber right. Hopfully he can fix it soon:)

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Synchronet Onliner Wall has been down for a bit.
I think echicken is the hub for the oneliner wall if I remeber right. Hopfully he can fix it soon:)

Usually, he's on IRC and I can ping him when OneLinerz stops. I checked
there yesterday, someone said they were going to look for EC on Discord...





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Re: Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Mon Feb 09 2026 07:23 am

Synchronet Onliner Wall has been down for a bit.
I think echicken is the hub for the oneliner wall if I remeber
right. Hopfully he can fix it soon:)

Usually, he's on IRC and I can ping him when OneLinerz stops. I checked there yesterday, someone said they were going to look for EC on Discord...

Looks like echickens BBS is also down, Look's like MRO's userclub BBS is also down.



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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Denn <=-

Synchronet Onliner Wall has been down for a bit.
I think echicken is the hub for the oneliner wall if I remeber right. Hopfully he can fix it soon:)

Usually, he's on IRC and I can ping him when OneLinerz stops. I checked there yesterday, someone said they were going to look for EC on
Discord...

Haven't seen him on IRC in quite a long while.




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Usually, he's on IRC and I can ping him when OneLinerz stops. I checked there yesterday, someone said they were going to look for EC on Discord...

Haven't seen him on IRC in quite a long while.

IIRC there are a few other EC doors that "ping" his system for info.

I wonder what it would take to set up an alternative for folks to point to?


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Usually, he's on IRC and I can ping him when OneLinerz stops. I checked there yesterday, someone said they were going to look for EC on Discord...

Haven't seen him on IRC in quite a long while.

IIRC there are a few other EC doors that "ping" his system for info.

I wonder what it would take to set up an alternative for folks to point to?

Not completely sure, as I don't use any of those "inter-bbs" things, for
this very reason. Intermittent availability and I honestly don't see
the point of it, at least for myself.

I guess another board/server could be another "hub" that boards could
exchange data with, if that location/address could be propogated and
systems could reconfigure to use it instead of EC's...



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Re: Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: Dumas Walker to GAMGEE on Tue Feb 10 2026 09:02 am

I wonder what it would take to set up an alternative for folks to point to?

There are a couple alternatives to consider:

IBOL (Inter-BBS One-Liners): This was a Mystic-only mod originally, but there's also a Synchronet version which Apam wrote and I took over with his permission. It passes the one-liners through fsxNet's FSX-DAT echo. You view and post one-liners locally on your board, and then they sync up with other boards after you poll your hub, which means it doesn't have the single point of failure which the EC OneLiners mod has. You can grab it from the file area on my BBS or lots of other BBSes (including Vert).

BBSlink Graffiti Wall: If you happen to already be set up on BBSlink, then this is another option. Grab it from the BBSlink website:
https://www.bbslink.net/sysop/wall.php

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Hey Codefenix!

On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:28:20 -0500, you wrote:

You view and post one-liners locally on your board, and then they sync
up with other boards after you poll your hub, which means it doesn't
have the single point of failure which the EC OneLiners mod has. You can grab it from the file area on my BBS or lots of other BBSes (including Vert).

If you want to get technical here (and no offense intended), if any of the net "hubs" went down (3 or 4 of them?), there would still be points of failure. FSX is still a "top-down" heirarchy, there are just more than one system involved at the top, whereas EC's stuff starts and ends there. Basically the same concept, though.

BBSlink Graffiti Wall: If you happen to already be set up on BBSlink,
then this is another option. Grab it from the BBSlink website: https://www.bbslink.net/sysop/wall.php

This would also be a single point of failure. However, I've had BBSLink for quite some time and he's very stable as far as I've witnessed.

It is what it is. You're always bearing a risk relying on someone else's stability when connecting to other systems for "inter-bbs" anything. I'll usually give anything I would be interested in a try, and if I notice the stability is terrible, I'll disconnect from it.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: Accession to Codefenix on Tue Feb 10 2026 06:58 pm

It is what it is. You're always bearing a risk relying on someone
else's stability when connecting to other systems for "inter-bbs"
anything. I'll usually give anything I would be interested
in a try, and if I notice the stability is terrible, I'll disconnect
from it.

The kinda ironic thing is i believe he made this because frank linhares'
stuff was disappearing on and off.

maybe they should make a mod that uses sbbsdata on dovenet.


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Re: Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: Dumas Walker to GAMGEE on Tue Feb 10 2026 09:02 am

Haven't seen him on IRC in quite a long while.

IIRC there are a few other EC doors that "ping" his system for info.

I wonder what it would take to set up an alternative for folks to point to?

Hosting your own wall

If you'd prefer to host your own wall, just leave the 'settings.ini' file in your 'xtrn/oneliners/' directory as-is.

If you want other people to be able to connect to your wall, you'll need to ensure that the JSON-DB service is enabled on your BBS, and that the port that you choose for it is open and forwarded to your BBS. To enable the JSON-DB service (if you haven't already,) add the following section to your 'ctrl/services.ini' file:

[JSON-Service]
Port=10088
Options=STATIC|LOOP
Command=json-service.js

You'll also need to add the following to your 'ctrl/json-service.ini' file:

[oneliners]
dir=../xtrn/oneliners/

Denn

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Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: MRO to Accession on Tue Feb 10 2026 08:55 pm

The kinda ironic thing is i believe he made this because frank
linhares' stuff was disappearing on and off.

maybe they should make a mod that uses sbbsdata on dovenet.

but then it would be dependant on the hub


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Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: Accession to Codefenix on Tue Feb 10 2026 06:58 pm

If you want to get technical here (and no offense intended), if any of the net "hubs" went down (3 or 4 of them?), there would still be points of failure. FSX is still a "top-down" heirarchy, there are just more than one system involved at the top, whereas EC's stuff starts and ends there. Basically the same concept, though.

Well, yes and no (and no offense taken). With IBOL, the local mod still runs and displays and accepts wall posts just fine regardless of the state of the hub. Then once the hub comes back online, any new posts get exchanged during polling. The user doesn't know (or care) that some other system is down.

With the EC OneLiners, if EC's board is down, the mod won't work at all because it's trying to connect in real time to something that isn't there. I've seen it take a long time (a minute or more) to time out in such cases, doing nothing but display a black screen. Most users aren't that patient and assume the board isn't working right and hang up.

That's the single point of failure I'm talking about.

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Hey Codefenix!

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:49:00 -0500, you wrote:

Well, yes and no (and no offense taken). With IBOL, the local mod still

Sometimes I have to start what I write with something like that, or it may seem like I'm being sarcastic or insulting when I'm not (see tagline). :)

runs and displays and accepts wall posts just fine regardless of the
state of the hub. Then once the hub comes back online, any new posts get exchanged during polling. The user doesn't know (or care) that some
other system is down.

I've never used either, so I didn't realize the difference. Could (or is) the above even used with multiple "hubs" that can still connect to each other? Or is there still one designated hub that everyone chooses to connect to?

With the EC OneLiners, if EC's board is down, the mod won't work at all because it's trying to connect in real time to something that isn't
there. I've seen it take a long time (a minute or more) to time out in
such cases, doing nothing but display a black screen. Most users aren't
that patient and assume the board isn't working right and hang up.

That's the single point of failure I'm talking about.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: Accession to Codefenix on Wed Feb 11 2026 06:50 pm

Sometimes I have to start what I write with something like that, or it may seem like I'm being sarcastic or insulting when I'm not (see tagline). :)

I gotcha :)

I've never used either, so I didn't realize the difference. Could (or is) the above even used with multiple "hubs" that can still connect to each other? Or is there still one designated hub that everyone chooses to connect to?

Do you mean for prolonged hub downtimes which might prompt a NC change? I imagine what holds true for standard hub-node polling holds true for this, since it's just messages sent through an echo.

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Re: SynchroNet Oneliners
By: Codefenix to Accession on Wed Feb 11 2026 07:49 am

Well, yes and no (and no offense taken). With IBOL, the local mod still runs and displays and accepts wall posts just fine regardless of the state of the hub. Then once the hub comes back online, any new posts get exchanged during polling. The user doesn't know (or care) that some other system is down.

It can be set to local, or to another HUB, but in this case since it's set to echickens BBS as the hub it does not show up.

because it's trying to connect in real time to something that isn't there. I've seen it take a long time (a minute or more) to time out in such cases, doing nothing but display a black screen. Most users aren't that patient and assume the board isn't working right and hang up.

I hope echicken is ok, His BBS is also down, I've seen it go down for a few day's, but never this long.

Denn

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I've never used either, so I didn't realize the difference. Could (or is) the above even used with multiple "hubs" that can still connect to each other? Or is there still one designated hub that everyone chooses to connect to?

Do you mean for prolonged hub downtimes which might prompt a NC change?
I imagine what holds true for standard hub-node polling holds true for this, since it's just messages sent through an echo.

Some of the Fidonet wonks rave about the "fidoweb", which is another
word for having multiple network feeds, then using your BBS software's
dupe detection to weed out the duplicates. Apparently someone felt
censored once by a hub filtering messages and this became a workaround.

Back in the day, Fidonet put way too much focus on the backbone, and
the sysops running it. No one's paying to download packets via LD any
more, a distributed arrangement makes sense - and we're not limited to
single lines with busy signals for most sysops.

With multi-node software running binkp, we could re-arrange networks
quite easily. Fidonet could be one zone, I've thought. I always worry
about how many nodes are on auto-pilot and would fall off the network
if you made a "flag day" change. But, then again, were those nodes
were contributing to the network?









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On 12 Feb 2026, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

With multi-node software running binkp, we could re-arrange networks
quite easily. Fidonet could be one zone, I've thought. I always worry
about how many nodes are on auto-pilot and would fall off the network
if you made a "flag day" change. But, then again, were those nodes
were contributing to the network?

this is why i like the qwk setup better in some ways.. it doesn't really matter if systems go away because they just stop polling and their account gets pruned. if they come back, they create an account and are right back
where they were.

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Hey Codefenix!

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:03:54 -0500, you wrote:

I've never used either, so I didn't realize the difference. Could
(or is) the above even used with multiple "hubs" that can still
connect to each other? Or is there still one designated hub that
everyone chooses to connect to?

Do you mean for prolonged hub downtimes which might prompt a NC change?
I imagine what holds true for standard hub-node polling holds true for
this, since it's just messages sent through an echo.

Eh, no? I was referring to and asking about how IBOL works (apologies, "prompt a NC change" kinda threw me off above). But, from your answer, I /think/ you're saying that there is still a single point of failure, just that if the hub actually does go down, all of your oneliners still stay on your system, and can still be added to locally, until the data echo continues flowing the actual data?

I was more asking something in the lines of similar to linking to many "feeds" for that one echo, and letting dupe detection sort it out (like I do with Fidonet). Except, this would only be for the oneliners. So, I guess in the sense of IBOL, can you link to net 1, 2, 3, and 4 for that data echo so that if one of those systems were to go down, you would still pass around oneliners from the other 3 networks/hubs ?

Regards,
Nick

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Hey poindexter!

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:37:30 -0800, you wrote:

Some of the Fidonet wonks rave about the "fidoweb", which is another
word for having multiple network feeds, then using your BBS software's
dupe detection to weed out the duplicates. Apparently someone felt
censored once by a hub filtering messages and this became a workaround.

Wonks? Anyway..

Some people don't like single points of failure, that's all.. and for the record, it was an entire zone being censored.. not just "someone". You seem to be having a hard time keeping your facts straight lately, it seems. :|

Regards,
Nick

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Hey fusion!

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:11:00 +0000, you wrote:

this is why i like the qwk setup better in some ways.. it doesn't really matter if systems go away because they just stop polling and their
account gets pruned. if they come back, they create an account and are
right back where they were.

This can also be done via Areafix/Filefix from both the hub and downlink sides, but I see what you're saying. However, if the one hosting the QWK network goes down, we're right back to square one again. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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