• IEMSI

    From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 20:15:06
    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    $ The Millionaire $

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 11:27:58
    Re: IEMSI
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue May 17 2022 08:15 pm

    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    Why?
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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 11:45:47
    Re: IEMSI
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue May 17 2022 08:15 pm

    Why?
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    Just a feature request. The DOS BBSes had it.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:13:21
    Re: IEMSI
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Wed May 18 2022 11:45 am


    Re: IEMSI
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue May 17 2022 08:15 pm

    Why?

    Just a feature request. The DOS BBSes had it.

    But do you actually have a use for it? I have (and continue to collect) plenty of Synchronet feature requests. Please only make requests for things that would actually get used and provide some kind of better sysop or user experience.
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  • From Gamgee@VERT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 14:13:00
    The Millionaire wrote to Digital Man <=-

    Why?

    Just a feature request. The DOS BBSes had it.

    You didn't answer his question. WHY?

    That is/was a mailer (FTN stuff) protocol. I'm not sure it even applies
    to an actual BBS login.

    Why would you need that? That's what he's asking. When you ask for a
    new "feature", you must have something in mind as to WHY you want/need
    it.

    What's your BBS name/address again?



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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Gamgee on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 14:06:43
    You didn't answer his question. WHY?

    That is/was a mailer (FTN stuff) protocol. I'm not sure it even applies
    to an actual BBS login.

    Why would you need that? That's what he's asking. When you ask for a
    new "feature", you must have something in mind as to WHY you want/need
    it.

    What's your BBS name/address again?

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    What's your website address?

    $ The Millionaire $

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  • From Belly@VERT/BRAZINET to Digital Man on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 17:50:17
    Re: IEMSI
    By: Digital Man to The Millionaire on Wed May 18 2022 11:27 am

    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    Why?

    While we're at it, how about adding support for EBCDIC output instead of ASCII? Someone might want to log in with some old 1960s IBM teleprinter or something.

    Note: I am 0% serious.

    o
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 19:17:00
    The Millionaire wrote to Digital Man <=-

    Re: IEMSI

    Why?

    Just a feature request.

    Yeah, we already knew that. The question was "WHY?".

    The DOS BBSes had it.

    That's not a reason, nor an answer to what was asked.


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 19:21:00
    The Millionaire wrote to Gamgee <=-

    You didn't answer his question. WHY?

    That is/was a mailer (FTN stuff) protocol. I'm not sure it even applies
    to an actual BBS login.

    Why would you need that? That's what he's asking. When you ask for a
    new "feature", you must have something in mind as to WHY you want/need
    it.

    What's your BBS name/address again?

    What's your website address?

    I don't run a website. I run a BBS.

    So why do you want the feature request you asked for? You didn't answer
    that yet.



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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Gamgee on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 17:54:30
    I don't run a website. I run a BBS.

    So why do you want the feature request you asked for? You didn't answer
    that yet.

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    Well DM runs a website and a BBS.

    $ The Millionaire $

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Gamgee on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 17:57:46
    I don't run a website. I run a BBS.

    So why do you want the feature request you asked for? You didn't answer
    that yet.

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    Because I am possibly thinking of running another Synchronet BBS in Linux.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 21:21:00
    The Millionaire wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I don't run a website. I run a BBS.

    Well DM runs a website and a BBS.

    That is true. You asked me what my website was, and I answered you.
    What does "what DM does" have to do with any of that?



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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to The Millionaire on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 21:24:00
    The Millionaire wrote to Gamgee <=-

    So why do you want the feature request you asked for? You didn't answer that yet.

    Because I am possibly thinking of running another Synchronet BBS
    in Linux.

    Right. Okay.

    What does *that* have to do with the feature you requested?

    I promise you that you don't need IEMSI to run SBBS on Linux.



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  • From the doctor@VERT/QBBS to BELLY on Thursday, May 19, 2022 09:37:00

    --- BELLY wrote --- Re: IEMSI By: Digital Man
    to The Millionaire on Wed May 18 2022
    While we're at it, how about adding support for EBCDIC output instead of ASCII?
    Someone might want to log in with some old 1960s IBM teleprinter or something.

    Note: I am 0% serious.

    Nulls. I'm using a Silent 700 printing terminal and it needs nulls, or I
    lose the first three or for characters while the print head returs.

    (Yes, kidding, but it was a problem for me when John Lorance removed null support from Quarkware -- in 1984)


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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to The Millionaire on Thursday, May 19, 2022 14:00:33
    El 18/5/22 a las 00:15, The Millionaire escribi¢:
    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    $ The Millionaire $
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    you can install terminate 5 run it as host mode and you have emsi support

    Saludos!

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  • From Belly@VERT/BRAZINET to the doctor on Thursday, May 19, 2022 12:09:49
    Re: IEMSI
    By: the doctor to BELLY on Thu May 19 2022 09:37 am

    Nulls. I'm using a Silent 700 printing terminal and it needs nulls, or I lose the first three or for characters while the print head returs.

    Wow. You are so right. It's been decades since I had to think about nulls for linefeeds.

    o
    (O)
    BeLLy

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  • From DesotoFireflite@VERT/VALHALLA to The Millionaire on Thursday, May 19, 2022 15:22:28
    Re: IEMSI
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue May 17 2022 08:15 pm

    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    $ The Millionaire $

    I know I'm gonna regret this, but way IEMSI. That was designed for the front end mailers to talk to the bbs when mail arrived. Of course the users could take advantage of it if they were using a IEMSI terminal. That is old arcitucture. We have RLogin now, plus other protocols that are way better than IEMSI, and if set up in your terminal correctly, you don't have to enter a thing, bam, you are logged in, just like IEMSI.

    Stop living in the past, Synchronet is miles ahead of what we used to have. Embrace the future, and forget the past.

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  • From dragon@VERT/IPTIA to The Millionaire on Thursday, May 19, 2022 17:42:46
    On 5/17/2022 11:15 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    $ The Millionaire $

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    Is this is one of those famous "conversation starters" I've been hearing
    so much about? ];>

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to dragon on Thursday, May 19, 2022 18:51:24
    On 5/17/2022 11:15 PM, The Millionaire wrote:

    Is this is one of those famous "conversation starters" I've been hearing
    so much about? ];>

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    It surely is. :-)

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  • From dragon@VERT/IPTIA to The Millionaire on Friday, May 20, 2022 11:33:53
    On 5/19/2022 9:51 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
    On 5/17/2022 11:15 PM, The Millionaire wrote:

    Is this is one of those famous "conversation starters" I've been hearing
    so much about? ];>

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    It surely is. :-)

    $ The Millionaire $

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    That is so cool. How do you come up with these? I've been hoping to
    break into the conversation-starting field, but don't know where to start.

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to The Millionaire on Friday, May 20, 2022 15:41:39
    Re: IEMSI
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Wed May 18 2022 11:45 am

    Why?

    Just a feature request. The DOS BBSes had it.

    By "The DOS BBSes" you mean Renegade and Telegard and RemoteAccess, right? Because that's the only ones I remember that had IEMSI built in. PCBoard and Probard had modules available written by 3rd parties for them. There was even a PPE for PCBoard that checked to see if the IEMSI user was using a cracked copy of Terminate!


    Do you even know what IEMSI is? Do you have an IEMSI terminal you're planning on using? I'm willing to bet $1,000,000 there's no such terminal in the apple app store for your iPad.


    The only modern BBS that has IEMSI support built-in right now is MBSE. If you really need it, I'd suggest trying that software.

    DaiTengu

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to The Millionaire on Friday, May 20, 2022 16:32:00
    On 5/17/22 20:15, The Millionaire wrote:
    How about an IEMSI system for logging in?

    Just use ssh or rlogin... it's useless tech at this point and there's no
    point in adding it with valid or better alternatives.
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