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  • Gating QWK <-> FTN using SBBS

    From Deepthaw@VERT to All on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 23:04:38
    What programs and configuration areas would I look at to setup gating QWK and USENET to other systems via FTN? I have an ENiGMA board I'm working on in parallel and would like it to be able to access DOVE-NET and USENET via my SBBS board.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Deepthaw on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 23:55:49
    Re: Gating QWK <-> FTN using SBBS
    By: Deepthaw to All on Wed Nov 18 2020 11:04 pm

    What programs and configuration areas would I look at to setup gating QWK and USENET to other systems via FTN? I have an ENiGMA board I'm working on in parallel and would like it to be able to access DOVE-NET and USENET via my SBBS board.

    Does ENiGMA only support FTN (i.e. not QWK or NNTP)?

    In any case, gating requires that you set the "gate between net-types" option to "Yes" for each gated sub-board which tells SBBS that you intentionally mixing network types and expect messages imported via one network technology (e.g. QWK) to be export to another (e.g. FTN). That's really the only special setting related to gating.
    http://synchro.net/docs/message_section.html#NetworkOptions
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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Deepthaw on Thursday, November 19, 2020 14:41:21
    On 11/19/2020 12:04 AM, Deepthaw wrote:
    What programs and configuration areas would I look at to setup gating QWK
    and USENET to other systems via FTN? I have an ENiGMA board I'm working on
    in parallel and would like it to be able to access DOVE-NET and USENET via
    my SBBS board.

    Looks like QWK is supported directly by Enigma.

    https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/blob/master/docs/messageareas/qwk.md

    (need to unwrap url)

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  • From deepthaw@VERT/CORTEX to Tracker1 on Thursday, November 19, 2020 16:57:57
    On 11/19/2020 2:41 pm Tracker1 said...
    Looks like QWK is supported directly by Enigma.

    The codebase is apparently 90% complete on QWK networking, but it's not in a usable state yet. I did get it setup though, wasn't too difficult. Just a lot of little things to remember to set right.


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