Subj : BBS Software projects
To   : All
From : Steven Sheeley
Date : Sun Oct 09 2016 09:10 pm


   Hello everybody!

   Just wanted to drop in and let everyone know that I've started work on a 
couple of BBS related software projects. If anyone's interested, that is.
 [grin]

   The first one is called Wycker as in "All In One Basket (A Wicker Basket)", 
pretty kewl name, eh? [grin] Anyways, it is designed to replace ABLOG
software that, much like most everything else these days, became abandonware. 
ABLOG, for those who don't know, is a Win32 commandline program to
parse the Argus FTN Mailer logs and create Daily, Weekly and Monthly stats. 
While it works, it's to limited, in my not so humble opinion. Wycker will
do the same thing for Argus/Radius/Taurus/Watergate logs but with a little 
more.  Here is its functionalities:

         1) Parse Argus/Radius/Taurus/Trapgate logs.
         2) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
         3) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time 
hierarchical format.
         4) Display Mailer stats on the Wycker Console.
         5) Parse Allfix logs.
         6) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
         7) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time 
hierarchical format.
         8) Display Allfix stats on the Wycker Console.
         9) Parse Synchronet BBS logs.
        10) Create bulletins for posting to local message bases or echomail.
        11) Archive those logs to preserve disk space in a date/time 
hierarchical format.
        12) Display Synchronet BBS stats on the Wycker Console.

   Those are the specs to start. If there are other logs that would be 
beneficial to Parse, Generate and Archive, if I am provided a sample of those
logs I will gladly add them to Wycker. Wycker is written in Pascal and is a 
Win32 Console app and will be designed to run continously to display the
stats and to archive logs at a predetermined time.

   The second one is a fork of Taurus (Or Trapgate, depending on the viability 
of the codebase) called Northwind. Northwind is a fork of one of the
two listed and the first release will be just a rebrand of whatever codebase I 
pick. Going forwrad we'll add new functionality and operations to it
as needed. Northwind is a Win32 console program, just as 
Argus/Radius/Taurus/Trapgate is now.

   Please feel free to join my BBS Split Infnity (infinity.synchro.net), which 
is where support and discussions will take place.


Steven


.... If silly had wings, this place would be an airport!
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