Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Mindsurfer on Tue Nov 04 2025 04:38 pm

It takes a little bit of messing about, but not too much. However, while I tested Golded with Synchronet quite a bit, that's not how I use it normally. There's too many quirks that I don't like, and it doesn't look like Golded will be updated to work better with Synchronet any time soon.

1) Netmail doesn't work. You can read the mail base, but you'll break stuff if you try to write to it.

2) You have to completely disable Synchronet's "voting" feature, and completely clear your message bases of any "voting" messages. Golded doesn't understand it, and will display blank messages and then jump back to the first message in the area - completely ruining any chance of reading messages in order, or keeping last read pointers in tact.

If you don't mind any of that, then it works great afterwards. It was definitely enough for me to move on to other options. ;)

Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.
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Hey Deuce!

On Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:46:10 +0000, you wrote:

Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.

Wow, I'm surprised to see you here. :)

If you do anything with this, let me know and I'll gladly help test it out!

Regards,
Nick

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Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Deuce on Wed Nov 05 2025 04:49 pm

Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.

Wow, I'm surprised to see you here. :)

If you do anything with this, let me know and I'll gladly help test it out!

Heh, with the work on The Clans, I'm actually putting a non-zero amount of time into making at least one of my boards not suck... even set up a FTN message network.

https://bbsdev.net/BBSDev/

It sucks and has nothing to recommend it.
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Hey Deuce!

On Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:23:40 +0000, you wrote:

Heh, with the work on The Clans, I'm actually putting a non-zero amount
of time into making at least one of my boards not suck... even set up a
FTN message network.

https://bbsdev.net/BBSDev/

It sucks and has nothing to recommend it.

Erm, has the original Deuce been kidnapped? What did you do with him!?

The Deuce I know doesn't like people. Now you're setting up a message network... for... communication with people!? :D

I'll hop on IRC soon to set this all up.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Deuce to Accession on Sat Nov 08 2025 04:23 am

Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Deuce on Wed Nov 05 2025 04:49 pm

Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.

Wow, I'm surprised to see you here. :)

If you do anything with this, let me know and I'll gladly help test it out!

Heh, with the work on The Clans, I'm actually putting a non-zero amount of time into making at least one of my boards not suck... even set up a FTN message network.

https://bbsdev.net/BBSDev/

It sucks and has nothing to recommend it.

Many of those setup steps can be automated by adding your network to the exec/init-fidonet.ini and then the steps at https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:fidonet can be followed to add your network, eliminating a lot of manual configuration.
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Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Deuce on Sat Nov 08 2025 07:23 am

The Deuce I know doesn't like people. Now you're setting up a message network... for... communication with people!? :D

It's only some people I don't like.

I'll hop on IRC soon to set this all up.

Cool, and the network is mostly for testing The Clans.
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Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Deuce on Sat Nov 08 2025 07:23 am

The Deuce I know doesn't like people. Now you're setting up a message network... for... communication with people!? :D

he must have had some good whiskey that night.
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Hey Deuce!

On Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:54:06 +0000, you wrote:

It's only some people I don't like.

I'll hop on IRC soon to set this all up.

Cool, and the network is mostly for testing The Clans.

That's what I figured. Once The Clans is done, do you plan on possibly doing any others?

Regards,
Nick

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Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
By: Accession to Deuce on Sun Nov 09 2025 06:27 am

That's what I figured. Once The Clans is done, do you plan on possibly doing any others?

Absolutely, I plan to go through all the BBS doors in git to start with... the GAC games are the ones I plan to look at next since they share a lot of code between the three.
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