Subj : a year in review
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Dec 28 2020 10:05 pm

Hello All!

As this year wraps up, I thought it would be interesting to  
recount some of the new developments that took place affecting  
the Fidonet/BBS hobby.

In no particular order..

[1] Thomas Bampi of 2:333/808 (Veleno BBS) introduced a point  
system completely webbased that does not impose the requirement  
for the user to use additional sofware beyond a standard web  
browser.  The system provides the reading and writing of messages  
with GoldED+.

[2] Stas Mishchenkov of 2:460/58 (Lame Users Breeding BBS)  
introduced a Fido by Telegram process that allows the use of the  
Telegram app to access Fidonet echomail areas. This is primarily  
to demonstrate the feasibility and convenience of using Telegram  
on mobile devices (or a desktop) and enjoy true protability and  
syncing across devices when accessing echomail.

[3] Vince Coen of 2:250/1 rebuilt a new version of the ELIST  
robot.

[4] Originally in Decemeber 2019 but considered for this report,  
Glenn Rossi of 1:275/301 (IPTIA BBS) announced that the entire  
content of the outgoing fidonet.ozzmosis.com archive was  
recovered, as well hundreds of thousands of other echomail  
messages from the Internet Archive and other sources, online at:
https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/

[5] A Sourceforge project was made available for porting the  
NTVDM subsystem of 32-bit Windows, over to 64-bit.

[6] BBSing took a comedic turn around March with a series of  
YouTube videos exploring the current state of select BBSes by the  
personality know as "Cheese Burger" as he visited random BBSes.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzhw8__cyDQHcQ7dHAFRnQ/

[7] Mystic BBS software was succesfully installed and operational  
on a smartphone. The full documentation on how it was achieved is  
found here: https://bit.ly/2UK60jk

[8] A new 3-part BBS documentary series was announced. "Back to  
the BBS" aired its first episode on Dec 20.
https://youtu.be/n0OwGSX2IiQ

If anyone can think of adding anything else, please do.


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