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  • Major changes

    From Atreyu@1:229/426 to All on Sun Jan 18 21:59:17 2026
    This weekend I made several changes behind-the-scenes affecting the Darkrealms website and processing of mail for all downlinks.

    It doesn't look like it on the outside, but Spinnaker was retired due to nonstop abuse from bots and generally affecting the BBS entirely. All of the custom programs I wrote for this were archived, not deleted, incase there is morbid curiousity of how one managed to run that into 2026.

    The mail processing on Darkrealms was revised and cleaned up, "should" be
    no problems with anyone linked here for mail. Custom programs and batch files were largely unchanged but a full round of testing was done anyway.

    There is a possibility that I may shut down Usenet services due to nonstop random binary-posts in otherwise "normal" groups; there is no way to combat this unless I write a custom NNTP client and unfortunately I'm too busy for that now. If anyone wants to discuss taking that over, reach out via Netmail.

    Nick

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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Atreyu on Mon Mar 9 03:16:33 2026
    Re: Major changes
    By: Atreyu to All on Sun Jan 18 2026 09:59 pm

    This weekend I made several changes behind-the-scenes affecting the Darkrealms website and processing of mail for all downlinks.

    How does one update the description of an echo in the Z1BONE.NA file linked there these days?

    The proper listing of the SYNCHRONET echo (e.g. from the distributed BACKBONE.NA file) should be:

    SYNCHRONET Synchronet Discussion
    --
    digital man (rob)

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    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
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  • From Atreyu@1:229/426 to Rob Swindell on Mon Mar 9 09:30:57 2026
    On 09 Mar 26 03:16:33, Rob Swindell said the following to Atreyu:

    How does one update the description of an echo in the Z1BONE.NA file linke there these days?

    One can simply ask... adding a "please" would be nice...

    Nick

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  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to Atreyu on Mon Mar 9 15:43:58 2026
    On Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:59:17 +0000
    "Atreyu" (1:229/426) <Atreyu@f426.n229.z1.fidonet> wrote:

    There is a possibility that I may shut down Usenet services due to
    nonstop random binary-posts in otherwise "normal" groups; there is no
    way to combat this unless I write a custom NNTP client and
    unfortunately I'm too busy for that now. If anyone wants to discuss
    taking that over, reach out via Netmail.

    Have you considered using NOCeM or limiting the size of posts to
    non-binary groups?

    I run my own news service so probably could. I always wondered how you
    get news from usenet to FTN packets. I'd love to do something like that
    but without having to import all the groups into my BBS. I have
    341,652,230 articles and can't plonk them all into file bases.
    --
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  • From Atreyu@1:229/426 to Nigel Reed on Mon Mar 9 19:11:47 2026
    On 09 Mar 26 15:43:58, Nigel Reed said the following to Atreyu:

    Have you considered using NOCeM or limiting the size of posts to
    non-binary groups?

    Yes... I try not to carry binary-groups to begin with. But this does not stop spammers or idiots from posting binaries in non-binary groups which unfortunately I currently have no way of skipping the download of via NNTP.

    They do get zapped here for the most part during the toss-cycle.

    I run my own news service so probably could. I always wondered how you
    get news from usenet to FTN packets. I'd love to do something like that
    but without having to import all the groups into my BBS. I have
    341,652,230 articles and can't plonk them all into file bases.

    I wrote custom software which manipulates Vsoup and Soupgate plus a few
    hooks in D'Bridge itself. Only what systems Areafix is what is downloaded.

    Nick

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  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to Atreyu on Mon Mar 9 21:57:39 2026
    On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 19:11:47 +0000
    "Atreyu" (1:229/426) <Atreyu@f426.n229.z1.fidonet> wrote:


    I wrote custom software which manipulates Vsoup and Soupgate plus a
    few hooks in D'Bridge itself. Only what systems Areafix is what is downloaded.

    I might be able to do something similar with Synchronet. Let me ponder
    on it.
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  • From Atreyu@1:229/426 to Nigel Reed on Tue Mar 10 00:42:22 2026
    On 09 Mar 26 21:57:39, Nigel Reed said the following to Atreyu:

    I might be able to do something similar with Synchronet. Let me ponder
    on it.

    I'm sure theres probably a bazillion better ways to do all this but its whats worked here for years.

    Nick

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