Author Topic: UBB alternative (Read 358 times)

LePaul · « **Reply #15 on:** June 04, 2001, 03:24:00 PM »

Wow, so many liked my NNTP Suggestion! hehe, <checks astrological tables>

If you want to see how WIN Server looks/works, sign in to my site at www.checksix.net and try it out. Its not inexpensive (WIN Server) but very powerful. The NNTP addon they just developed (I used a 3rd party's version, which I feel is better at this point) is nice. The only catch is how many users can be logged in at once (i.e. Node Count). I have a 12 user license, thought of upping to more, but I've never had a problem with it since upping from 4 to 12.

So, if HTC has questions about it, setup, etc, ask away. It has a telnet side as well..after all, this is the latest incarnation of Wildcat BBS, if any of you folks were BBSer's in the early/mid 90s!

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Paul J. Busiere

Aces High Arena handle: BD5Pilot
http://bd5.checksix.net
BD-5 "T" (TurboProp) 90% complete, first flight in 2001 (We hope!)

MrLars · « **Reply #16 on:** June 04, 2001, 05:01:00 PM »

Another vote for NNTP. I only read this NG at my office on a T1 line....home is dial-up and I don't read here from there with all the pics people include with their signatures.

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Lars
***MOL***
Men Of Leisure

lemur · « **Reply #17 on:** June 04, 2001, 05:35:00 PM »

November November Tango Papa!

Please, please, please switch from this BB software to something that supports NNTP!

Waiting 40 seconds for a thread to load only to discover it's filled with posts from the FDBs whining about how small their noodlees (penii? penum? dicks?) are...

Oy.

~Lemur

Zigrat · « **Reply #18 on:** June 04, 2001, 07:12:00 PM »

a hardy vote against nntp from me. i like web based boards much better personally.

Lephturn · « **Reply #19 on:** June 05, 2001, 07:33:00 AM »

I think some of the suggestions above are for a web-based UBB that has the OPTION of NNTP access. Correct?

This would keep all of us happy.

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TK_421 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 05, 2001, 11:39:00 AM »

I don't know how much brainpower and programming talent there is to spare here. However, I can tell you that running an NNTP capable server is trivial. I have been running one for a year or more, where qute a few AH/WB/AW players contribute.

What is nontrivial is developing a HTTP interface that will work in most browsers and still maintain all of the goodies that UBB/HTML provides for.

If anyone would like to take a crack at developing something like this, I'd be willing to help.

TK/Diche

Lephturn · « **Reply #21 on:** June 05, 2001, 11:51:00 AM »

Hey TK... look up a few posts. Such a thing already exists.

It's a web BBS with an NNTP plugin. That would be sweet.

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Sean "Lephturn" Conrad - Aces High Chief Trainer

A proud member of the mighty Flying Pigs
http://www.flyingpigs.com

Check out Lephturn's Aerodrome for AH articles and training info!

TK_421 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 05, 2001, 12:42:00 PM »

I know. There are several such products.

But it's "not inexpensive". Ideally, the community could build something like this cheaply. Cost ought to be a huge concern, since I don't think HTC is quite as well off as Ion Storm was.

Besides, I've got the hardware, and half the software (the NNTP half anyway ;-) ) and reasonable bandwidth (DSL). I could host HTTP stuff as well on that box, if we wanted to take a crack at developing something.

By the people, for the people or something like that. ;-)

TK/Diche