A long time ago I started looking at mbnntp and played with using a newsgroup client to access the various echo's on my system, but unfortunately most of
my work was lost with a hard drive crash on my development workstation about
a year ago. Now that I'm starting to look at things again, I'm reminded that mbnntp barely supports the basics when it comes to NNTP commands. It doesn't implement much of RFC 977, only AUTHINFO and XOVER (barely) from RFC 2980,
and RFC 3977 wasn't even published when it was written.

My question: Is anyone doing any work on mbnntp? If I do get around to actually reading the RFC's and attempting to get them implemented in mbnntp,
is anyone willing to look over my code to make sure I don't introduce security issues?

I've got a strong history as a SysAdmin (which includes debugging developers code), but my coding is more of a hobby. It seems that I have to re-teach myself C every time I do work on MBSE. :-)

Ken


Ken...
kbowley@bbs.trod.org

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Hello Ken!

04 May 18 21:59, you wrote to all:

A long time ago I started looking at mbnntp and played with using a newsgroup client to access the various echo's on my system, but unfortunately most of my work was lost with a hard drive crash on my development workstation about a year ago. Now that I'm starting to
look at things again, I'm reminded that mbnntp barely supports the
basics when it comes to NNTP commands. It doesn't implement much of
RFC 977, only AUTHINFO and XOVER (barely) from RFC 2980, and RFC 3977 wasn't even published when it was written.

My question: Is anyone doing any work on mbnntp? If I do get around
to actually reading the RFC's and attempting to get them implemented
in mbnntp, is anyone willing to look over my code to make sure I don't introduce security issues?

I haven't looked at mbnntp; been more concentrating on the mailer and fidonet processing stuff.

I've got a strong history as a SysAdmin (which includes debugging developers code), but my coding is more of a hobby. It seems that I
have to re-teach myself C every time I do work on MBSE. :-)

I started learning C to fix issues with MakeNL, and then as I got more comfortable with it I tackled MBSE. There are still a bunch of things I want to work on with it. The interBBS chat needs to be overhauled and upgraded to support IPv6, the BBS won't fall back to displaying the ASCII file if the ANSI file doesn't exist, etc.

There are only so many hours in a day...

Andrew

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Hello Andrew.

05 May 18 02:40, you wrote to Ken Bowley:

I've got a strong history as a SysAdmin (which includes debugging
developers code), but my coding is more of a hobby. It seems
that I have to re-teach myself C every time I do work on MBSE.
:-)

I started learning C to fix issues with MakeNL, and then as I got more
comfortable with it I tackled MBSE. There are still a bunch of
things I want to work on with it. The interBBS chat needs to be overhauled and upgraded to support IPv6, the BBS won't fall back to displaying the ASCII file if the ANSI file doesn't exist, etc.

There are only so many hours in a day...

I am completely out of this discussion, although I'm considering
to use MBSE in the near future; my question in this topic is:

Isn't it easier just to use Jamnntpd instead of mbnntp? Aside from
all those RFC-related issues, JAMNNTPD functionality allows you to effectively reply TO people...

Flavio

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Hi Flavio!

Flavio Bessa wrote to Andrew Leary:

I am completely out of this discussion, although I'm considering
to use MBSE in the near future; my question in this topic is:

Isn't it easier just to use Jamnntpd instead of mbnntp?

Not really, I don't think. User confguration, for instance.

Aside from all those RFC-related issues,

For which, MBNNTP or JamNNTPd? Or is it both that you're referring to?

JAMNNTPD functionality allows you to effectively reply TO people...

Which if MBNNTP doesn't have, it really should. (Not that I recall how JamNNTPd does it...) Perhaps an issue should be opened about the idea?




Jame







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