• Usenet setup

    From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Avon on Wed Jan 20 00:08:07 2021
    Hi,
    i am starting to setup the UseNet area of mystic.
    the FSX-USE.txt said that first i need to contact you
    and ask for my node number (21:4/129) to be set up at the
    fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/10).
    is there any info you need from me for this?

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to gcubebuddy on Wed Jan 20 17:56:03 2021
    On 19 Jan 2021 at 07:08p, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

    Hi,
    i am starting to setup the UseNet area of mystic.
    the FSX-USE.txt said that first i need to contact you
    and ask for my node number (21:4/129) to be set up at the
    fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/10).
    is there any info you need from me for this?

    Nope that's enough for now, I'll work on this and email you when done.

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Avon on Wed Jan 20 18:10:29 2021
    Awesome! thanks so much!

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to gcubebuddy on Fri Jan 22 01:37:05 2021
    On 20 Jan 2021 at 01:10p, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

    Awesome! thanks so much!

    Have emailed you, if you don't see something from me in the next few hours
    let me know :)

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Avon on Thu Jan 21 18:34:31 2021
    ok awesome, i will keep my eyes out for it.
    thanks :-)

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Avon on Thu Jan 21 20:39:41 2021
    ok, i sent a reply email with screenshots of my mystic config for UseNet. i hope i am setting everything up correctly.
    i have scripts for usenet-mailin.ini and usenet-mailout.ini, although i am
    not sure what to put in the scripts for communicating with the usenet server. also is there anthing specific i need to do for mis?
    such as ./mis poll 21:1/10 ?

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to gcubebuddy on Thu Jan 21 18:57:45 2021
    On 21 Jan 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

    also is there anthing specific i need to do for mis?
    such as ./mis poll 21:1/10 ?

    If you have an event setup to do "./mis poll forced" every so often then that will poll all of your nodes, including 21:1/10


    Jay

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  • From Barmed@21:4/127 to Warpslide on Thu Jan 21 18:50:43 2021
    On 21 Jan 2021, Warpslide said the following...

    On 21 Jan 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

    also is there anthing specific i need to do for mis?
    such as ./mis poll 21:1/10 ?

    If you have an event setup to do "./mis poll forced" every so often then that will poll all of your nodes, including 21:1/10


    And don't forget to restart your server after any changes. That was a
    thing I had to learn...

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Warpslide on Fri Jan 22 01:24:39 2021
    Oh ok good to know. Ya i will probly need to take a list of all my scripts
    and figure out what does what, and have a master script that runs once an
    hour, that runs the seprate scripts in sucession.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to gcubebuddy on Fri Jan 22 17:23:17 2021
    On 21 Jan 2021 at 03:39p, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

    ok, i sent a reply email with screenshots of my mystic config for
    UseNet. i hope i am setting everything up correctly.
    i have scripts for usenet-mailin.ini and usenet-mailout.ini, although i
    am not sure what to put in the scripts for communicating with the usenet server. also is there anthing specific i need to do for mis?
    such as ./mis poll 21:1/10 ?

    As this is not really a mystic specific chat I will reply to you via netmail and take this out of the echo :) Stand by caller.

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  • From Warp 4@21:2/136 to gcubebuddy on Sun Jan 31 12:56:39 2021
    On 19 Jan 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

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    Hi,
    i am starting to setup the UseNet area of mystic.
    the FSX-USE.txt said that first i need to contact you
    and ask for my node number (21:4/129) to be set up at the
    fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/10).
    is there any info you need from me for this?

    It would actually be great if there were a way we could connect to news servers directly via NNTP to transfer newsgroups.

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  • From Bob Roberts@21:2/118 to Warp 4 on Sun Jan 31 15:02:51 2021
    It would actually be great if there were a way we could connect to news servers directly via NNTP to
    transfer newsgroups.

    I just added Usenet using SBBS' native ability to do so. I'm not sure its a value add.

    There is such much garbage in Usenet now, most of the forums are filled with wierd racist rants and religious screeds. There are tons of spammers and bots that send the same 5000 line message full of links with different subject lines and user names so you can't filter it. I've been trying to narrow it down to the small amount of newsgroups used by humans to have intelligent conversation, and there are very few.

    It's sad that such a once-valuable resource has been subverted with such slime. Like one of those fantasy novels where the wizards all went insane because Magic became corrupted by a great evil.

    Bob Roberts

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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Bob Roberts on Sun Jan 31 16:29:02 2021
    BY: Bob Roberts(21:2/118)


    |11BR|09> |10There is such much garbage in Usenet now, most of the forums are filled|07
    |11BR|09> |10with wierd racist rants and religious screeds. There are tons of|07
    |11BR|09> |10spammers and bots that send the same 5000 line message full of links|07
    Even with a filter that limits cross postings to no more than 3 newsgroups?


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  • From Bob Roberts@21:2/118 to Utopian Galt on Sun Jan 31 17:28:22 2021
    There are tons of|07 |11BR|09> |10spammers and bots that send the same 5000 line message full of links|07 Even with a filter that limits cross postings to no more than 3 newsgroups?

    My filter is currently 5, and I'm debating lowering it to 3 or 4. However the spam I described (5000 line posts full of random text and links posted under diferent names and subjects) appears both cross-posted and in single conferences.

    I haven't tweaked any of my filters or unsubbed from anything yet. I'm waiting to get a few days of input before I start to narrow things down.

    Bob Roberts
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