Hi

I'm working on implementing the hosting a sub feature in talisman, and I
think I've done most of it.. but I was looking at main_type 1

up until now i just ignore those messages. Now I am thinking maybe I
should do something with them..

is de1.exe still used (or some variation of it) to verify messages?

How critical are the main_type 1 messages anyway? The email to sysop from network coordinator seems important, but the rest seem kind of ... not particularly important given you can get those files from github (I can
see the usefulness back in the day though)

Andrew


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up until now i just ignore those messages. Now I am thinking maybe I
should do something with them..

We process them, and I believe that netup sends them. This is how updated wwivnet files show up for people once mark pushes them out (we don't tell people to pull fro github, but keep them there for archival purposes).

One of the nice things from wwivnet for ever was that you didn't need to have the batchfile setup like with ftn networks to process nodelists, etc.

https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/blob/5d9bef30e0772f3ce0349b78b3245c8aad9306f6/ne twork2/network2.cpp#L217 is the code

is de1.exe still used (or some variation of it) to verify messages?

No, we skip over the check currently. the custom RSA library for DOS isn't standard so wasn't replacable with a normal hmac or other modern pki library. At this stage in the life of a BBS,I didn't think it's useful.

Could always go back and replace it with a modern integrity check if needed that's open source, just haven't done it.

rushfan



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On Thursday,October 24, 2024 at 11:01 AM, Rushfan wrote:

We process them, and I believe that netup sends them. This is how
updated wwivnet files show up for people once mark pushes them out (we
don't tell people to pull fro github, but keep them there for archival purposes).

Hey rushfan, how are the updates hatched out, is it manual or is there a way to automate it for items such as subs.lst, binkp.net, etc ...?

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We process them, and I believe that netup sends them. This is how
updated wwivnet files show up for people once mark pushes them out (we
don't tell people to pull fro github, but keep them there for archival purposes).

Thankyou!

Andrew

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Hey rushfan, how are the updates hatched out, is it manual or is there a
way to automate it for items such as subs.lst, binkp.net, etc ...?

Just ping mark hoffman (@ the weatherstation bbs) and he can push it out. I imagine he's 1@1

rushfan

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