Re: Nice BBS/SyncTerm article in Raspberry Pi Tips, Tricks & Fixes
By: Paulie420 to All on Wed May 13 2020 11:19 am
That's awesome! Much appreciate your bringing that to my (and Deuce's) attention!
I couldn't find the magazine in stock anywhere to buy, but it is available for PDF-download from here: https://filecr.com/elearning/raspberry-pi-tips-tricks-fixed/
digital man
Raspberry Pi Tips, Tricks & Fixes is a magazine I picked up last year, its listed as Volume 35 (Fall 2019).
I thought it was a pretty decent writeup, that had SyncTerm in it and did a good job of getting a newcomer into BBSes. I wish they'd of listed a telnet BBS directory, or Vertrauen Synchronet main BBS... but, ya get what ya get.
I like the statement "In a world of internet snooping, a BBS is probably one of the last bastions of digital privacy".
Hello Paulie420!
** On Wednesday 13.05.20 - 14:19, paulie420 wrote to All:
Raspberry Pi Tips, Tricks & Fixes is a magazine I picked up last year,[snip]
its listed as Volume 35 (Fall 2019).
That was pretty good. I wasn't aware that there once was a Google BBS Tunnel thing around. I thought I was looking at a Lynx/Links type of browser display.
I like the statement "In a world of internet snooping, a BBS is probably one of the last bastions of digital privacy".
That is a "selling" point that sysops ought to promote.
../|ug
I like the statement "In a world of internet snooping, a BBS is probably one of the last bastions of digital privacy".
That is a "selling" point that sysops ought to promote.
or only allow logged in users to view the messages... that would eliminate the spiders and bots from scraping them...
Rampage wrote to Nightfox <=-
or only allow logged in users to view the messages... that would
eliminate the spiders and bots from scraping them...
or only allow logged in users to view the messages... that would
eliminate the spiders and bots from scraping them...
Nightfox> I wonder if it's possible to configure ecwebv4 to do that.
i would imagine that it would use the same thing that you would use on your BBS to prevent guests from reading the areas... maybe let them see the groups and the areas but not actually read any messages... depends on your style of prevention ;)
I've often thought we should make a campaign to urge defaults on web
BBS software to limit access out of the box and to remind sysops to
check their configs.
Rampage wrote to paulie420 <=-
paulie420> Yes; I'm just now jumping into user levels and flag
defaults
paulie420> because out of the box synchro is NEWUSER--> open to all.
new users are one thing... guests are another... anonymous access via
web server is done with the guest account... no guest account, no
access for unregistered visitors but one can also have a guest account with restrictions...
for example, some systems might allow guests to play door games while others might let guests see the door games list but not play any of them... the same goes for message groups and areas as well as the file libraries and they areas they contain...
paulie420 wrote to Rampage <=-
Is there really any negative consequences of not having a guest
account?
Vk3jed wrote to paulie420 <=-
The email thing is hard for me, cause Xfinity blocks port 25 and I
typed all the vert-linking stuff in to no avail; YET. :P I'll get it...
You might have to resort to a VPN with a static IP, if all else fails.
:)
Rampage wrote to paulie420 <=-
paulie420> Yes; I'm just now jumping into user levels and flag
defaults
paulie420> because out of the box synchro is NEWUSER--> open to all.
Yes, to Mark's point, I let guests see my local areas. I'm not concerned about Google getting to them. Any networked area requires authenticated access.
paulie420 wrote to Rampage <=-
Is there really any negative consequences of not having a guest
account?
I'm not sure how the web server would behave, and you wouldn't be able to do anonymous FTP.
Re: Re: Nice BBS/SyncTerm article in Raspberry Pi Tips, Tricks & Fixes
By: Ogg to All on Sun May 17 2020 12:57 am
hey, a lot of synchronet bbses have their web interface showing msg subs to the public.
so it would be pretty easy to find our msgs in a simple google search. you might even see 20 or so different bbses showing the same results.
I think you would be hardpressed to find a copy of this message with a Ogg>> simple google search.
give it time ;)
you might want to bookmark this search and check it every once in a while over the next days/weeks...
https://www.google.com/search?q="would+be+hardpressed+to+find+a+copy+of+th is+message"
shorter versions of the above do currently return some results but given
some time, the above will return your message...
Interesting. But are Dovenet messages showing up now?
I like the statement "In a world of internet snooping, a BBS is probably one of the last bastions of digital privacy".
That is a "selling" point that sysops ought to promote.
Many BBSes these days have a web interface, so the messages are visible on the web, which isn't totally private. I suppose the best way around that would be for the sysop to disable web access to their BBS.
Interesting. But are Dovenet messages showing up now?
yes, they have been for years...
here're the results for one specific system... you can try others, as
well...
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asestar.synchro.net+dovenet
[snip]It's so not true, though. As a sysop I can see EVERYTHING a user does. I Da>> can read their private e-mail, if I want to (for the record, I do not
want to).
I can do all of this very easily. and it's mostly performed over telnet, Da>> which is an unencrypted communication method.
Well, DaiTengu, I can appreciate where your going with this.. and
However, I think the point is that unlike the social networks that are
run by major corporations of the world, a sysop reading my information
and getting a giggle out of me and someone I'm trying to speak
privately to is NOT as bad as a google - that is taking that
information and monetizing it.
I think the reference to digital privacy is more about keeping said information out of the hands of those large corporations and less
about some random sysop having the access. In that respect, BBSes do
offer a form of privacy that is extinct in the current internet age.
That was pretty good. I wasn't aware that there once was a Google BBS
Tunnel thing around. I thought I was looking at a Lynx/Links type of
browser display.
I don't think that there was actually a Google BBS tunnel... I guess I could be wrong, but... anyway; let me know if you see or use that. I'd
dig linking it to my BBS. :P Lol. I think that was just photoshop
wizardry, not an actual service.
Glad ya'll dug that little find of mine - I'm super happy that they
linked Syncterm as opposed to some other crappier way of connecting.
IMO, that article will get folks connected to BBSes the right way. I
wish a larger publication would pick up boards. We're still kickin
over here and all.. :P
What I'd prefer, as an alternative, is paying $10/mo for a totally ad-free track-free everything-free Facebook. Just let me pay, because the service, content and amount of people on it are valuable, for the service that I use.
And leave me out of all the algorithmn bullshit.
Syncterm does not seem to retain my settings the next time I load it. :(
Ogg wrote to paulie420 <=-
Even $1/mo is too much! It is OUR data that they are using. The
cashflow should come in OUR direction.
Even $1/mo is too much! It is OUR data that they are using. The
cashflow should come in OUR direction.
Jaron Lanier has a book called "You are not a Gadget" that describes a micropayment system where art and content creators can be paid directly..
He's pretty outspoken about the state of the tech, and has an interesting
Ted talk called something like "Why you need to quit social media".
But I am forced to use Syncterm on my Win7 pc - and resizing is a bit techy requiring to experiment with picking the font size and numbers. Syncterm does not seem to retain my settings the next time I load it. :(
What version?
On 18/05/2020 8:45 p.m., Digital Man wrote:
But I am forced to use Syncterm on my Win7 pc - and resizing is a bit techy requiring to experiment with picking the font size and numbers. Syncterm does not seem to retain my settings the next time I load it. :(
What version?
1.1b here.
I think I got it to cooperate a little better.
When it is set to maximize, and then [x] close it, the next time I launch it, it
then restores to the size I want.
Otherwise, I can't resize it to the size I want while it runs. Instead,it just resets to a window that is 1/4 of the size of my display.
| Sysop: | Coz |
|---|---|
| Location: | Anoka, MN |
| Users: | 2 |
| Nodes: | 4 (0 / 4) |
| Uptime: | 158:23:50 |
| Calls: | 162 |
| Files: | 5,334 |
| Messages: | 221,585 |