Subj : Re: I have an Idea
To   : Nightfox
From : Fireball
Date : Thu Feb 07 2013 06:24 pm

 > 
 > I had this idea myself, and actually implemented a pair of apps (client and
 > server) a few years ago that I'd use for remote paging.  Since my BBS is on
 > a separate computer, I wanted to be notified when a user paged me on my
 > main computer.  It was fairly simple though in that would just play a sound
 > when
 > a user paged me.  When I heard the sound, I'd then remote desktop onto my
 > BBS machine to talk to the user.
 > 
 > I wrote my client & server apps in C++ to use traditional socket networking
 > though, and the drawback to that was that if my server app wasn't running
 > (i.e., when my main PC was turned off), the client would take a while
 > (several moments) to "page" me because it couldn't connect to the server
 > app - It would wait and eventually time out.  I didn't really like that,
 > but it worked well when my main PC was turned on and the server app was
 > running.  I eventually stopped using it due to that issue though..
 > 
 > Nightfox 
 > 

I'm thinking skip the whole having to login from remote and chat via my
desktop system. I remember that back in the day, when the sysop was running it
on their local system, they'd answer almost immediately. This would bring that
to sbbs for those who have a remote system or sbbs running on a local separate
system.

Fireball

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