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    From Fernan Bolando@fernan@sdf.org to rocksolid.nodes.help on Mon Jan 20 18:25:43 2025
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    hi
    hopefully I am using this correctly.

    I have simple BBS at cw.qc.to 9000
    i wanted to be able to read and post on usenet using my BBS.

    so ignorantly of all the usenet stuff. I proceeded to read the
    RFC977 and RFC1036. so I made a modification to my bbs that
    will allow it to connect the a newsserver E-S or i2pn2g. it
    bascally acts like a newsreader when it connects to the newserver.
    When a user posts the headersare build with a FROM: of format
    user@cw.qc.to and a SENDER: header using a valid email address.

    my question are
    1. As I was told this might trigger a nymshifting limit. when
    multiple users are posting on the bbs. should i i be formatting
    the headers differently? Anybody can point me to the right direction?
    2. I wanted to use the application password instead of my user
    password, but authentication fails. anybody have an idea how to
    the application password? do i use the same username?

    i asked similar question at Eternal-September, but thought it
    would help if i ask here too.

    regards
    fernan
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  • From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.nodes.help on Tue Jan 21 07:09:54 2025
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    On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:25:43 +0000, Fernan Bolando wrote:


    hi
    hopefully I am using this correctly.

    I have simple BBS at cw.qc.to 9000
    i wanted to be able to read and post on usenet using my BBS.

    so ignorantly of all the usenet stuff. I proceeded to read the
    RFC977 and RFC1036. so I made a modification to my bbs that
    will allow it to connect the a newsserver E-S or i2pn2g. it
    bascally acts like a newsreader when it connects to the newserver.
    When a user posts the headersare build with a FROM: of format
    user@cw.qc.to and a SENDER: header using a valid email address.

    my question are
    1. As I was told this might trigger a nymshifting limit. when
    multiple users are posting on the bbs. should i i be formatting
    the headers differently? Anybody can point me to the right direction?

    Hi Fernan,

    I saw your email before this so have already replied there. I'll copy
    here so others may benefit (or not :)

    news.i2pn2.org add a 'posting-user' header
    in Injection-Info that is based on the user who authenticated. So in
    this
    case, that user is your bbs, not the poster. All your users would have
    the
    same posting-user header, so it would be clear the posts all come from
    the
    same account.

    The one rule that is important for a bbs to apply, is that all your
    users must
    authenticate with your bbs. It must be possible for you (not me), to
    deal with
    a problem user based on their From address. So, all users must
    authenticate
    with your bbs before posting to Usenet.

    2. I wanted to use the application password instead of my user
    password, but authentication fails. anybody have an idea how to
    the application password? do i use the same username?

    I don't know what is the 'applicaion password'. Just use your i2pn2.org password to authenticate with new.i2pn2.org. If you want to have two
    ways to authenticate, like one for your bbs and one for yourself, just
    create two accounts (using different email addresses).
    --
    Retro Guy
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  • From prysm1@prysm1@cw.qc.to to rocksolid.nodes.help on Sun Jan 26 13:33:05 2025
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    lets see if reply works...

    Ray

    thanks for the help.

    -prysm1

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  • From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.nodes.help on Sun Jan 26 07:49:25 2025
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    On Sun, 26 Jan 25 13:33:05 GMT, prysm1 wrote:

    lets see if reply works...

    Ray

    thanks for the help.

    Looks like it works!
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