Subj : food fite
To   : Tiny
From : AKAcastor
Date : Tue Jun 25 2024 10:43 am

 T> There was a cross-platform oneliners a few years ago that stored the info
 T> on the interwebz instead of the message base.  I wrote a door that worked
 T> with it and the last callers.   Much easier then accessing the message
 T> base, but when he shut things down that was the end of it.

That's an interesting idea.  Maybe a 2-part system could work well, with the first part running on a server collecting and distributing oneliners/callers, and the second part being the local integration into a BBS (pulling from the server and displaying to the user).

I guess the server would make sense to have a simple REST API and the clients could send HTTP GET to retrieve the lists.  Should be pretty straightforward to implement on both ends.

The second part of the system (local integration into BBS) could be done via whatever scripting the sysop chooses, or an external door (DOS? Win32? OS/2?) could be created.  (at least this door wouldn't need access to message bases)

Something I feel like always needs to be asked, because it supports everything - does Synchronet already support something like this?  I think they do have a oneliner system at least.  Is there any kind of standard to implement for this, before reinventing the wheel?


Chris/akacastor

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