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Wed Sep 26 2018 14:23:34 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredDepends on whether you plan to participate in its development. That includes participation via documentation, testing, etc, not just code.
Well, if it is allowed, I'd certainly be willing to.
As I mentioned in my first post in the Development room, coding is not exactly my strong point, though I have had to make my way through it -it's not that coding doesn't interest me-.
But, as also mentioned, I do have some time for reading and testing, for example. Also open to other types of participation if needed.
If I may mention it, my primary interests would be the XMPP server and the upcoming Webcit-ng interface; improving them -and speeding their development if possible-. But if you say "right now we need to fix this and that first" I adapt as well.
I know this is the 2nd time I hint at all of this, and of course don't intend to annoy people with the same arguments neither. It's just that, just saying "I wanna help, tell me where to" sounded kinda rude and even a bit retarded. And with the lack of feedback in the Development room I thought "then I should at least begin somewhere", which was the XMPP server (currently learning how to use gdb).
But, if you could mention where or how some participation is needed, it would be very helpful.
If I'm missing something about how things work here, please tell.
Thanks in advance.
The reason the development room isn't public is because people were using it for random feature requests and other way-off-topic things. The only time a feature request would be welcome there would be "I want to implement XYZ; can you tell me which API's I should use, and are you willing to accept such an addition to the project mainline".
On the fidonet topic:
Fidonet seems to be much the same with the spam and flame wars.
Another echomail net that is much more friendly and active (several hundred nodes) is called fsxNet.
Another echomail net that is much more friendly and active (several hundred nodes) is called fsxNet.The fidonet technology will still need to be integrated somehow for other fidotech networks though.
Well ... I'm not going to build FidoNet technology directly into Citadel, but if there is a standalone tosser/fetcher that runs on Linux, I could write an external program to convert between data formats and import/export the data to Citadel.
Is there such a thing?
In addition to citadel, I also run mystic bbs which has the following features, http://mysticbbs.com/features.html
I have not really played with many of the options listed in the top "Internet/Network Integration" but I wonder if NNTP might be a way to integrate the two? Or maybe the mentioned "email based echomail".
Subject: Re: [CitaNews] Re: Fidonet
I ran a Linux FidoNet BBS back in the day. There is software to gate
FidoNet netmail to email, and FidoNet Echomail to Usenet.
There is software listed here:
http://bellman.zcu.cz/~flidr/fido/
I recall using ifcico, but I an unsure if I used Fidogate or ifgate with
it. I suspect ifgate.
John
On Sat, Nov 03 2018, nristen@uncensored.citadel.org wrote:
In addition to citadel, I also run mystic bbs which has the following features, http://mysticbbs.com/features.html
I have not really played with many of the options listed in the top "Internet/Network Integration" but I wonder if NNTP might be a way to integrate the two? Or maybe the mentioned "email
based echomail".
From the command line: sudo apt-get install `grep-available -i fido -ns package | sort -u
Subject: Re: [CitaNews] Re: Fidonet
I ran a Linux FidoNet BBS back in the day. There is software to gateI'd also thought to use ifcico/ifgate (which are still in
FidoNet netmail to email, and FidoNet Echomail to Usenet.
There is software listed here:
http://bellman.zcu.cz/~flidr/fido/
I recall using ifcico, but I an unsure if I used Fidogate or ifgate with
it. I suspect ifgate.
Debian/Ubuntu & which is somewhat simpler in some ways) and Citadels
email interface in order to gate both ways between FTN/Fidonet and
Citadel but I've not really had a chance to work on it...
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Robert J. Clay
rjclay@gmail.com
1:120/544@fidonet
Subject: Re: [CitaNews] Re: Fidonet
Well ... I'm not going to build FidoNet technology directly into Citadel,Import/export between FTN/FIdonet 'packet' files (which is the basic
but if there is a standalone tosser/fetcher that runs on Linux, I could write
an external program to convert between data formats and import/export the
data to Citadel.
interface between FTN systems for netmail & echomail) and Citadel
rooms would do it...
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Robert J. Clay
rjclay@gmail.com
1:120/544@fidonet
The modern Internet where "everything's an FQDN" could be done with more simplicity. And we wouldn't need to be able to handle email either, since everyone already has that taken care of.
I probably ought to pursue the path that we started down a couple of years ago -- just build a full NNTP implementation and let everything else tie into that. Remember that weird Kontent Kreator dude that showed up and kept posting screenfuls of hoopy-doopy insights about using technology to become transcendent into the next phase of humanity or some such nonsense? He was pushing pretty hard for us to do NNTP and that would make Citadel the platform of choice for such things. He wandered away around the same time I discovered that he really just wanted to distribute a couple of megabytes of anti-semitic crap. The NNTP effort went stagnant, but what we built is still in the server and actually works in read-only mode.
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