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    From Shawn Highfield@CAPCITY2 to Jas Hud on Mon Jul 15 06:48:34 2024
    oh, i'm not surprised about the linux version being buggy. my hosts ran
    the ftp server and i think things were decent. The email support i
    wouldn't even use.

    Back when irex was still supported and the world was young... LOL I ran
    pretty much every feature it had. Mailing lists, email, ftp, bink, etc.
    It was a great program.

    This is 25 years later and without the author keeping things updated it's essentially a buggy binkp program now. It's a shame really, but I get it having wrote a few BBS>Internet programs back in the late 90s. My POP
    email client as a BBS door for one... It worked with irex, but nothing
    new. LOL

    Shawn

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  • From Mike Powell@CAPCITY2 to SHAWN HIGHFIELD on Mon Jul 15 09:16:00 2024
    Back when irex was still supported and the world was young... LOL I ran pretty much every feature it had. Mailing lists, email, ftp, bink, etc.
    It was a great program.

    I was even able to figure out how to use it to exchange QWK mail with VERT
    so I could carry Dovenet on my DOS BBS. It was a really neat program back
    in the day.

    Mike


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  • From Nick Mackechnie@CAPCITY2 to Shawn Highfield on Tue Jul 16 07:52:00 2024
    Back when irex was still supported and the world was young... LOL I ran
    pretty much every feature it had. Mailing lists, email, ftp, bink, etc.
    It was a great program.


    Ahem, I'm still running irex, bink and nntp gateway work fine :-)

    Nick

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  • From Jas Hud@CAPCITY2 to Mike Powell on Mon Jul 15 19:00:51 2024
    To: Mike Powell
    Re: QWK Networking via Ele/RA
    By: Mike Powell to SHAWN HIGHFIELD on Mon Jul 15 2024 09:16 am

    From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs

    Back when irex was still supported and the world was young... LOL I ran pretty much every feature it had. Mailing lists, email, ftp, bink, etc. It was a great program.

    I was even able to figure out how to use it to exchange QWK mail with VERT so I could carry Dovenet on my DOS BBS. It was a really neat program back in the day.


    Maybe certain protocols were busted but i used it on several of my bbses and i set it up on other bbses using binkp and it worked well.

    people say it's buggy and they have problems but I'm not sure what exactly is going on and couldn't really get a clear answer other than the linux version isn't great.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@CAPCITY2 to Shawn Highfield on Mon Jul 15 06:33:00 2024
    Shawn Highfield wrote to Jas Hud <=-

    Back when irex was still supported and the world was young... LOL I
    ran pretty much every feature it had. Mailing lists, email, ftp, bink, etc. It was a great program.

    It was a quantum leap, going from a DOS BBS to running the BBS and iRex
    in Windows. I got my first internet fido feed around '97 and went from
    polling once a night to once an hour...

    Good times.

    This is 25 years later and without the author keeping things updated
    it's essentially a buggy binkp program now. It's a shame really


    What drew me to Synchronet was being able to run a telnettable BBS,
    SMTP/POP3/IMAP servers, NNTP, FTP and a web server, all in one package.
    All this ran, back in the early 2000s, on a Celeron 533 with 512 MB of
    RAM.


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  • From Jas Hud@CAPCITY2 to Kurt Weiske on Mon Jul 15 21:39:20 2024
    To: Kurt Weiske
    Re: Re: QWK Networking via Ele/RA
    By: Kurt Weiske to Shawn Highfield on Mon Jul 15 2024 06:33 am


    This is 25 years later and without the author keeping things updated it's essentially a buggy binkp program now. It's a shame really


    What drew me to Synchronet was being able to run a telnettable BBS,
    SMTP/POP3/IMAP servers, NNTP, FTP and a web server, all in one package.
    All this ran, back in the early 2000s, on a Celeron 533 with 512 MB of
    RAM.



    what drew me to synchronet is the stability. i was running the old netmodem and other junk with iniquity or renegade in the late 90s-2000.

    BBS software wise, everything was a mess in the new telnet age. I had to run my bbs across town at my friends house because i couldnt get cable internet in my area. Stupid netmodem would always crash or say 'busy' when it wasn't.

    I saw all these synchronet bbses and decided to give it a try. elebbs was a close 2nd. for me, synchronet was a huge learning curve and there wasn't much i could learn from in regards to scripting; I had to figure a lot of it out myself. Eventually I mastered it, but i'm pretty sure right now my BBS-peen is 1/4 the size it used to be due to forgetting and not exercising my skills.
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  • From Mike Powell@CAPCITY2 to JAS HUD on Tue Jul 16 07:36:00 2024
    people say it's buggy and they have problems but I'm not sure what exactly is going on and couldn't really get a clear answer other than the linux version isn't great.

    Yeah, I could never get the linux version to run. The DOS version was
    pretty good but would sometimes get hung up or crash. The OS/2 version
    seemed to work quite well.


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  • From Digimaus@CAPCITY2 to Nick Mackechnie on Thu Jul 18 22:07:51 2024
    Nick Mackechnie wrote to Shawn Highfield <=-

    Ahem, I'm still running irex, bink and nntp gateway work fine :-)

    I have it running on my OS/2 box for now...been using it since 1998. IRex's BinkP 1.1 is very buggy and it is a security risk to run it. Rex's FTP, POP3, and SMTP servers are buggy too.

    Charles had come up with a litany of excuses why he hasn't fixed it and it boils down to the minute he graduated college and made money, he wrote off the BBS world completely, much like how Tim Strike has lied about the Telegard BBS source code for decades.

    MBSE BBS has a special switch to toggle when you are connecting to a IRex user; it forces the connection to drop to BinkP 1.0.

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