Subj : Re: Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?
To   : Joaquim Homrighausen
From : IB JOE
Date : Mon Sep 18 2017 08:16 am

On 09/18/17, Joaquim Homrighausen said the following...
 
 JH>  ij> I have a big wish for the future of FrontDoor... I'd like it to
 JH>  ij> be able to spawn a telnet session off a modem line.  There are
 JH>  ij> a few applications out there... dialup2telnet....  and Synchronet,
 JH>  ij> or Digital Man, has made one as well.  There was never an OS2
 JH>  ij> version of those programs, know nothing about programming so I
 JH>  ij> have no clue how to port said code...
 JH> 
 JH> What is the use case?
 JH> 

Okay, not sure of your question... So I'll answer the one I think you're
asking.  There are a few programs out there... Synchronnet has one called
sexpots... the pots part of this word is exactly what you're
thinking... P.O.T.S. ... the sex part was added on by Digital Man...
Apparently, like the powers to be in FidoNET, Rob should have rubbed one out
before naming software.

All that aside, If you have a dialup line and have a mailer, sexpots has a
windows flavor, the mailer answers the call... people press twice to gain
access to the BBS... Where themailer errors out to pull up the BBS
commandline to exicute the BBS it pulls up sexpots.

Sexpots then telnets you to your BBS through a modem connection, since most
BBSes are telnet systems, if they don't support that internaly they have
access to it.

Sexpots is a stand a lone product, can be ran without a mailer.  It can
answer calls and send a user to said telnet address.  There is an other
product called dialuptotelnet...

These only come in windows flavors, not sure if Duce has ported Sexpots to
Linux.

The mailer choices we have access to are slim, I mean if you are using native
32Bit software in an other platform other than DOS... there are options, but
none like FrontDoor.

Long live FrontDoor, all hale %JoHo%

:)

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
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