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From: wally@netcom.com (Wally Schwarz)
Subject: Re: Multi-Line BBS's
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 02:56:20 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

From article <Bs0xrw.7t5@acsu.buffalo.edu>, by visbrown@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL):
> In article <BryzH4.J9D@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, bjpocock@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Beastor the Mad) writes...
> Call the phone company and tell them you need 4 lines in a "hunt group". 
> That way, a caller dials one number and gets the first open (not busy) 
> line.  Hunt groups are expensive though so you might consider just 
> getting 4 lines and having you callers try each number in sequence until 
> they hit an open line.  (Thats the arrangement on BIBMUG's BBS which I 
> sysop.)
> 

Hunting in Pacific Bell territory is $.50 per month per line, minimum $1.00
per month. $20 per line for installation, minimum $40.

That's expensive?

Where my parents are in South Dakota, hunting is $8 a month, and busy call
forwarding is $4.50 a month. Still not expensive for the convience of having
just one phone number.

-- 
Wally Schwarz                               Wally World BBS
2228 S El Camino Real #40                   415/349-6969/V.32
San Mateo, CA 94403-1853                    415/349-8408/V.32bis
                                            415/349-8375/USR Dual Standard
From: cybrspc!wwiv!63-500@cs.umn.edu (system#coldbox.cojones.com (Bryan Lockwood) #63 @500)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Mailservers- SIMTEL?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 06:23:13 GMT

I'm interested in that QWK format file on SIMTEL, but don't have ftp access.
Can someone direct me to a mailserver for simtel files?

-----
Author: Bryan Lockwood (system@coldbox.cojones.com)
Coldbox=  Usenet: system@coldbox.cojones.com | WWIVnet: system@501
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.dcom.modems
From: mpl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (michael.p.lindner)
Subject: Performance Problems with Zmodem
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:27:26 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: zmodem speed

I have a '386 with an internal Zoom V32bis faxmodem and Telix 3.15.
My problem is this.  I set the DCE speed (in Telix) to 57.2 Kbps and
connect to a BBS.  I can download at about 1700 cps, but uploads
involve timeouts and retransmissions, and drops in packet size, etc.
until I get about 100 cps throughput :^(.  Setting the DCE speed to
19,200 gives me about 240 cps throughput on uploads, and doesn't
affect downloads, so I assume this "feature" has to do with the
mismatch between DCE and DTE speeds of the modem.  Throughput also
varies with the particular BBS I conenct to, so I assume there are
Zmodem implementations that do a better or worse job of dealing with
this.

My question is, what can I do to get uploads to work faster?  One
obvious thing would be to set the DCE speed lower than the DTE speed
(e.g. 9600 bps), but I'd rather not throttle my download speed.  Is it a
feature of the zmodem that comes with Telix?  Is there a better package
I can get reasonably cheap?

Mike Lindner
mikel@attmail.att.com
From: psycho@whitebase.ukp.com (Psycho dude)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: test
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 07:30:18 EDT
Organization: UKP Systems, Middletown, NJ

martin.altorfer@active.eunet.ch (Martin Altorfer)  writes:

> TO: ALL
> NEWSGROUP: alt.bbs
> 
> 
> 
> in the newsgroups? Do I have to write only messages from EMAIL section?
> 
>                                                 Martin
>                                                                              


No... type mail and the prompt to send mail to the author of the message.
L8r
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: by355@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael P. Otto)
Subject: Re: RBBS?
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 17:53:34 GMT


I haven't found a news reader, but you can do e-mail by using NoSnail to export netmail out of the *M.DEF files, and address the messages using one of the UUCP gates. 
 
You could also run Waffle as a door, and that would get you your news and mail.
 
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From: aaronb@hotcity.COM (Aaron Bromagem)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Multi-Line BBS's
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:39:22 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <Bs0xrw.7t5@acsu.buffalo.edu>, visbrown@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (BILL)
writes:
>In article <BryzH4.J9D@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
bjpocock@undergrad.math.wat
>erloo.edu (Beastor the Mad) writes...
>> 
>>      Ok... I'm running RA 1.11, and I was wondering about multi-line bbs's. 
>> I want to put 4 lines with the same phonenumber.  I know this is possible, 
>> but I can't find a person who knows how to do it.  Any information would be 
>> helpful.
>
>Call the phone company and tell them you need 4 lines in a "hunt group". 
>That way, a caller dials one number and gets the first open (not busy) 
>line.  Hunt groups are expensive though so you might consider just 
>getting 4 lines and having you callers try each number in sequence until 
>they hit an open line.  (Thats the arrangement on BIBMUG's BBS which I 
>sysop.)
>
>Bill

        Hmm...when I called, "CALL HUNTING" was only $.50 cents extra per
month.

Aaron Bromagem from The Badlands BBS in San Martin California 1200-19,200
(408)683-0963 ---- 1200-2400 (408)683-0970   24 hours
aaronb@hotcity.
From: aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Problems running boards with controversial stuff?
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:54:06 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO

| I will soon be starting a BBS and have some questions for sysops
| who operate BBS's which deal with controversial things (hacker
| stuff, adult material, far-out politics...)

NOTE - the following is one man's opinion and is not intended as a personal 
       statment about people or the uses of BBS's. 

I think there is more to your question than may be apparent.

1. Are you a pervert? Anxious to help your brethern get their jollies?
2. Are you a pirate intending to get rich from selling the hot ware?
3. Are you a KKK member spreading subversion and violent revolution?

HUH?  You just want a BBS that won't DIE on you due to a lack of interest?  
Oh...sorry.

So this is what BBS's are for?  Heck, I thought they were just places to 
practice babbling, upsmanship, wize-cracks, and wittless-witties! And my local
off-line storage. (of course!) 

Besides -  
   1. The keyboard gets sticky  
   2. The hot'ware aint Lotus.
   3. My house burnt down last week.

Conclusion?  (HA! We don need no steenking conclusions!)
  There *are* other things to do with a BBS, but can you figure them out?
  (ah, why bother...)

Jim 8')s | aites@hpsmpa.lvld.hp.com

PS...I run a bbs (it's been up for a year) and I don't do any of this TRASH!
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: SYSOP BUSTED FOR PORNO IN OHIO!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:17:31 GMT

In article <ghartzog.0xm8@terapin.com> ghartzog@terapin.com (Garrett Hartzog) writes:

>how do you decide when kids are old enough to make their own decisions? I'm 15
>(16 in october) and I feel I'm perfectly capable of making my own decisions. I
>act in a responsible manner, I don't drink or do drugs. there are some 17 year
>olds who do drugs and drink and other stuff. It's impossible to determine when
>someone's ready to make their own decisions. If people want to hole up with
>their computer and d/l a bunch of XXX gifs and such, let them, it's their
>choice. I really don't care that much one way or the other but I don't like the
>idea that "kids" aren't allowed to make their own decisions based upon some
>arbitrary age limit. Okay, I'll get off of my soap box now.

It's the law, unfortunately... the fascists say you must be 18, so sysops 
have to enforce this limit for our own protection.

If this was a free country, I'd let everyone into the X-GIF section... but
it's not.



-- 
"...no identification of self or mission; no interference with social develop-
 ment of said planet; no references to space, to other worlds or more advanced
 civilizations."   The PRIME DIRECTIVE, by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon.
hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu             _V_a_l_h_a_l_l_a BBS, 217-352-3682, WWIV4.21, 14.4k
From: jwaleke@tcedge.mi.org (Jim Waleke)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: SYSOP BUSTED FOR PORNO IN OHIO!
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:53:42 GMT
Organization: EXCELSIOR! Tech Support BBS (313) 77-AMIGA
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! v0.95r

In an article, wally@netcom.com (Wally Schwarz) writes:
>
>If I were under-aged and I wanted access to stuff like that, what would it
>take to borrow your older insert-your-favorite-word id's (brother, friend,
>etc) and send that in as "proof". 
>
>No, the only true way to verify the age is for you to see the person face
>to face and see a photo id at the same time. How many users are willing to
>do that on a bbs?

But with the license, don't you get some protection from the police if they 
ever questioned you or anything.  Then couldn't they go and arrest the kid, or 
his parents?
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: pands@cix.compulink.co.uk (P & S Ltd - Accounts Dept)
Subject: DOS BBS information please
Reply-To: pands@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 14:31:57 +0000

Recently I asked about RA and it's ability to work over a lan.  Thanks to
all the people who replied,  publically and via email.  The consensus view
seems to be that it will,  but not quickly.

I don't want to start a flame war,  or a useless "mine's better than yours"
discussion,  but has anyone out there in netland done (or heard of) a
comparison between the various DOS BBS's?

I'm actually looking for a BBS which has a good user interface (like
Wildcat, RA or GTPower for example),  can have Usenet messages fed into it
with no problem,  and can handle external 'services' like faxes.  Any
comments?

Thanks.

--------------------------< Who 'zat >-----------------------------------
    Paul Wilson,  P-and-S Ltd, P O Box 54, Macclesfield, SK10 5EH, UK
                     pands@cix.compulink.co.uk
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From: psycho@whitebase.ukp.com (Psycho dude)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Virus BBS's
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 07:40:57 EDT
Organization: UKP Systems, Middletown, NJ

brianc@eskimo.celestial.com (Brian C) writes:

> Could someone post or e-mail me a list of virus related bbs #'s:
> 
> Brian
> 


For DOS or UNIX or Mac related computers?
L8r
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: dacole@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Cole)
Subject: Re: BBS Summary
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:22:23 GMT

I appoligize for the waste of bandwidth, but I would like to see this
  BBS summary.  It seems I have joined this newsgroup too late, and my
  site has purged it.  *sigh*

---
Dave Cole
dacole@descartes.waterloo.edu
From: v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PATRICK FERREL)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Problem with ftp site
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:10:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello.  I am looking into various software packages to try.  I tried to get
Maximus from <wuarchive.wustl.edu>.  There were four files of various sizes all
with the .zip extension.  But, when I tried to use PkUnzip v. 1.10, I couldn't
get it to unzip.  It said that "the archive is probably not a .ZIP archive."

Does anyone know why, or what is wrong?  Does anyone out there have the latest
version of Maximus in their transfer section?  If so, please let me know your
number. 

Thanks in advance.

Patrick A. Ferrel - Scholar. Helpless romantic. Modem geek.  | Disaster Area
v120qldp@ubvms.buffalo.edu | WWIVnet 42@7652 | IceNET 1@7659 | (716)683-6657
From: mvdl@et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Binkley 2.55 & 2.56 : BUGGED ?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:32:54 +0200
Organization: TU-Delft, dpt of Electrical Engineering


Hi,

I used binkley 2.50 as frontend mailer for the BBS, and all worked fine..
This week I tried to install Binkley 2.56 (en also 2.56) and this di NOT work :(

Binkley now does not notice any incoming calls...There IS a connect, but
binkley does not notice this (nothing to see in the 'recent activity' or
'transfer status' window.

However, when I switch from unattended mode to terminal mode (by pressing ALT T)
the 'RING's and 'CONNECT xxxxx' strings appear... (in the terminal window)..

Since there are no docs that go with these versions, I assumed all would be the
same as in 2.55. Is this not true and IS it all different (then what should I
change ?) or is this a _MAJOR_ bug in the software ?

Please let me know what you think/know..

TIA,
Michel
From: josh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Frodo Baggins)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: binkley 2.56 for os/2
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:14:29 GMT
Reply-To: josh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Frodo Baggins)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: josh@tramp.cc.utexas.edu

Does anybody know where I might find a copy of binkley 2.56 for OS/2?

Also, has anyone had a problem with Binkley not recognizing a RING
statement from the modem, in either DOS or OS/2 versions?  Mine
won't seem to answer the phone, but it dials out fine.
-- 
        < Josh > < a.k.a. Frodo Baggins > < josh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu >
From: v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PATRICK FERREL)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: stuff
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:05:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

First of all, my problem was that I forgot to go into Binary mode.  Geesh...a
waste of three hours <sigh>.

Second, if it were zipped with a "newer" version than 1.10, and you tried to
unzip it with 1.10, you would get a message saying, "I don't know what to do
with this" (or something to that effect).  The latest version of PKZip/Unzip is
1.10.  There is a version 1.93 which is an alpha, and is not downward
compatible.  2.0 is a hack, and there is a 2.2 floating around out there which
is a Trojan Horse.  If you see anything later than 1.10, DON'T USE IT!!

Third, I said it once, and I'll say it again:  If the kid lied about his age,
then the guy is a victim of entrapment.  If not, then the guy is an idiot, and
deserves to be arrested.  I know *EVERYTHING* that happens on my system.  I
have all uploads go to my directory, and I scan it, and look at it before I put
it in directories accessible to normal users.  If the guy didn't restrict
access to the X-rated .GIFs, he is a fool and S.O.L.



Patrick A. Ferrel - Scholar. Helpless romantic. Modem geek.  | Disaster Area
v120qldp@ubvms.buffalo.edu | WWIVnet 42@7652 | IceNET 1@7659 | (716)683-6657
From: bbn.com!mbeck@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: * WANTED: BBS's in Boston (617 area code) - list or single
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:07:00 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

Hi, 
 I would like get some numbers for BBS's in Boston, so I can try out my new
14,4 modem when I get it. I'll apreciate any help - single numbers, lists, or
pointers on where to find lists (FTP?). Please send all replies to
mbeck@bbn.com. I will post the results if I get enough. Thanx,

          _Mike_

--------
Michael Beck       email: MBECK@BBN.COM or MBECK@VTSSI.VT.EDU
Phone: (617)873-2605  or  873-2383
       Office  2/247      Lab 2/273
From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Prodigy/Internet
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:38:39 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

In article <92205.155031ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Brett Rogers) writes:
>     What about CompuServe?  I recall reading something about being able
>to forward Internet mail to CIS... Are there direct mail gateways then?
>How would I send something from Internet to a CompuServe address?  Thanks...

To send Internet mail to CIS user 1234,5678 use the following address:

   1234.5678@compuserve.com
       ^
   note period instead of comma
-- 
Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu
Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
Technical Support                  (714) 432-5064
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: jrjohns@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN RICHARD JOHNS)
Subject: Re: where to ftp msdos BBS software?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:01:48 GMT

>If you even think of using WWIV, get the last issue of 2600 to find out
>how to protect yourself from some evil loopholes

What is "2600"?  Where would I get it?  What are these loopholes?  What
VERSION of WWIV were these loopholes supposedly in?  Was the author of
the article setting up WWIV as instructed by Wayne Bell?  (There are two
known 'loopholes' in WWIV, which can *not* be fixed via a change in the
WWIV software.  They are the "DSZ" and the "PKZIP" methods of hacking.
The solutions to both are simple; for DSZ, register your copy so you can
put your DSZ in another directory, or use a different Zmodem protocol.  For
the PKZIP problem, use the front end for ZIP, "UNZIP.EXE", distributed by
Wayne Bell himself.)

You're being awfully vague, if these loopholes are so "evil" as you say.
The latest version of WWIV, version 4.21, is virtually hole-less.

>>
>> Use Telegard 2.7.

>I concur.  Get it from wuarchive.wustl.edu

If you're giving that advice because of the supposed loopholes in WWIV, you
must be joking.  It's a known fact that Telegard has some of the worst
holes in it's security out of all available BBSes!  I don't run it, would
never run it...once a hack of WWIV, always a hack of WWIV I say.  I've heard
that there are long lists of "security fixes" that sysops running TG are
supposed to do when setting up their boards to fix all the loopholes.  It
sounds too easy to me to skip a step by accident.

Even the latest version of TAG has holes in it too.  I know a person who
ran a TAG board for a while.  He had someone trying to break into his board...

- John


-- 
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| "You know whut?  That makes me...mad!" |     John R. Johns II    |
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From: mvdl@et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.allsysop
Subject: Re: Multi-Line BBS... NEED MORE HELP!!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:52:18 +0200
Organization: TU-Delft, dpt of Electrical Engineering

In article <1992Jul28.232604.21166@uvm.edu>, cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise) writes:
> From article <Bs4CC2.5y3@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, by bjpocock@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Beastor the Mad):
>> 
>> <::::::::: HEY THERE ::::::::::>
>> 
>> 	Thanks for all the info on running multi-line BBS's.  I still have
>> many more though... so here it goes:
>> 
> 
>  With TBBS:
>> 1.	How many lines can a:
>> 		386-25SX, 2 megs ram, 105Meg Hard drive
> 		64 lines, many 14.4 modems
>> 		386-25SX, 4 megs ram, 105Meg Hard drive
> 		64 lines, many 14.4 modems
>> 		386-33DX, 4 megs ram, 130Meg Hard Drive
> 		64 lines, many more 14.4 modems
>> 		486-33DX, 4 megs ram, 200Meg Hard Drive
> 		64 lines, all 14.4 modems
>> 		486-50, 8 megs ram, 300Meg Hard Drive
> 		64 lines, all 14.4 modems

Indeed... TBBS even runs very well on a PC-XT with1 10 or 20 high-speeds lines
or so...

>> 
>> 	run... just wondering.  I would be using WINDOWS NT when it comes
>> out... as a multi-tasker.  (That is assuming it is VERY GOOD... else Windows
>> 3.1).

I expect windows NT not to be out very soon, perhaps at the end of this year.
The release of the beta (for software-developers) was already delayed (should
have been out last week or so)..
I don't think too much of NT. Try OS/2, you only will need good drivers for
your digiboards (running TBBS with digiboardsis the best way (and: all ports
polled at one (1 !) interruptrequest.
BTW: IBM and MS have reached an agreement about using eachothers source etc.
Windows NT and OS/2 will probably be compatible, although I think OS/2 will be
more stabil.


>> 
>> 2.	Does hooking up a bunch of computers in a LAN as a PEER (ie.. can
>> be accessed and can access any computer that is hooked up to it) slow down
>> the modems.  I mean, if I had one computer running 4 lines, and 4 other
>> people were accessing the computer (downloading files for example), would that
>> slow down the 4 lines hooked up to it signifigantly?
> 
> 	Not with TBBS...

Well, with novell no problems, but how about novell-lite ? 

>> 
>> 3.	What program would best run a BBS with 20 lines or so hooked up to it.
> 
> 	*grin*
>> 
>> 4.	Does anyone know if you can get a MUD going on a BBS?
> 
> 	Never seen one, but that doesn't mean someone can't write one *hint*hint*

How about Legends ?

>  
>  TTYL
>  Chris
>
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: pands@cix.compulink.co.uk (P & S Ltd - Accounts Dept)
Subject: Information about RA please ..
Reply-To: pands@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:08:43 +0000

Does anyone out there in netland know if RA likes working with networked
PC's?  I'm looking for a setup which lets me use a couple of dusty 286's
each carrying one or two lines.

Thanks.

--------------------------< Who 'zat >-----------------------------------
    Paul Wilson,  P-and-S Ltd, P O Box 54, Macclesfield, SK10 5EH, UK
                     pands@cix.compulink.co.uk
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From: smash@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott Mash)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Proboard bug, need new support number.
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:07:47 GMT
Organization: Smasher Land BBS (614)593-8359


A couple of days ago I found a bug with Proboard 1.21, it may of
been a bug or it may of been a back door written into the code.
This bug was as follows, anyone can log on with the name "! !",
the software will not ask you for a password.  So this name quickly
went into my trashcan file.

Now for the second part of my problem, I called the Proboard support
bbs and the phone had been disconnected.  Does anyone have the new
number?


Scott


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| smash@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu         |  Scott A. Mash               |
| smash@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu         |  Smasher Land RPG BBS        |
| system@smashland.nelsonville.oh.us |  (614) 593-8359, 2400 Baud   |
| cs819@ouaccvmb.bitnet              |  RPG Textfiles And Utilities |
From: mvdl@et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Binkley 2.55 & 2.56 : BUGGED ? 
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:31:45 +0200
Distribution: world
Organization: TU-Delft, dpt of Electrical Engineering

In article <711924580snx@global.hacktic.nl>, peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
> 
> In article <Ja5coB1w165w@blackhl.hacktic.nl> daniel@blackhl.hacktic.nl writes:
> 
>   > Maybe this is a weird idee but it sounds like you have no BBS event running,
>   > this because you get the info in your terminal screen en not the mailer
>   > screen.
> Hmmm, then what about mail-only systems? (For instance a BBS event doesn't make
> much sense in a TBBS environment where Binkley is used for the mail hour...)
> 
>   > > However, when I switch from unattended mode to terminal mode (by pressing
>   > > ALT the 'RING's and 'CONNECT xxxxx' strings appear... (in the terminal
>   > > window)..
>   > give me a call at on mij bbs so i can give you my binkley.cfg
> It's not the config file that's wrong, it's the events file. But then, old
> Binkleys had the same problem...

It indeed WAS a fault in nthe event-file (although 2.50 did not need this file
at all to run fine..). But it seems 2.56 IS bugged...

BTW: another cause of the problem was the 'vacsina' virus... :)

Michel.

> 
> Greetings,
> Peter Busser
> ---
> I don't do .sigs
> 
Newsgroups: alt.bbs