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    From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to All on Thu Apr 2 14:20:56 2026
    Re: Social Media
    By: Geri Atricks to All on Thu Apr 02 2026 11:41:59

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    Have it print a lude letter to to your Mom.
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  • From Geri Atricks@21:3/235 to The Wanderer on Wed Apr 8 13:15:57 2026
    I think I prefer just to have a single, proper open network with free speech. Elon has done well with X in this regard.

    No... free speech at all costs is not healthy, and X isn't even that.
    It's free speech if Elon agrees with you (mostly), but X is now really quite well known as being a toxic shithole.

    Elon is a KNOWN NAZI, which is why I have deleted all of my accounts on anything his dirty scum hands have touch. With the exception of Stoat, Telegram and Bsky, I have left all forms of SM behind. They have ALL become toxic shitholes. But yet all these games are trying to get people to join their SM's, especially Discord, and they could not pay me enough to go back to that Dumpster fire of a shithole.

    Piss on Elon! He can go back to sucking on Trumps gerkin.
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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Geri Atricks on Wed Apr 8 18:31:29 2026
    ...not sure what to respond to there, but after that... how about we (me included) drop talking about Musk, at this point?

    It's definitely becoming a non-friendly/fun/etc. conversation, and we're probably breaking the no-politics rule.

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Geri Atricks on Thu Apr 9 10:05:27 2026
    Twas Wednesday, April 8th when Geri Atricks said...
    Elon is a KNOWN NAZI

    Facts.


    Twas Wednesday, April 8th when Geri Atricks said...
    Piss on Elon! He can go back to sucking on Trumps gerkin.

    +1.


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Thu Apr 9 14:55:18 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Geri Atricks <=-

    Twas Wednesday, April 8th when Geri Atricks said...
    Elon is a KNOWN NAZI

    Facts.

    Well, to you two, anyway.

    What actual facts do you have on that? Oh! I bet you're referring to
    that over-hyped "hand gesture" he made once! Yeah, that sure is proof
    of something. Oh yes, absolutely. <EYEROLL>

    Piss on Elon! He can go back to sucking on Trumps gerkin.

    +1.

    I thought politics weren't supposed to be in play around here.



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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Gamgee on Thu Apr 9 17:40:49 2026
    I thought politics weren't supposed to be in play around here.

    You know how it goes. Do as the democrap's say, not as they do.

    ... Or time will grind you down to dust again...

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Exodus on Thu Apr 9 20:37:53 2026
    Exodus wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I thought politics weren't supposed to be in play around here.

    You know how it goes. Do as the democrap's say, not as they do.

    Yup. "Rules for thee, but not for Me..." ;-)



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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Fri Apr 10 15:17:48 2026
    On Thursday, April 9th Gamgee muttered...
    What actual facts do you have on that? Oh! I bet you're referring to that over-hyped "hand gesture" he made once!

    Multiple "hand gestures". His overwhelming support for AfD. His support for the idea of the "replacement theory". His constant "Jew hating" posts. The fact that he grew up in a Nazi family... lol

    get real.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Sat Apr 11 09:43:07 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    What actual facts do you have on that? Oh! I bet you're referring to that over-hyped "hand gesture" he made once!

    Multiple "hand gestures". His overwhelming support for AfD. His support for the idea of the "replacement theory". His constant "Jew hating"
    posts. The fact that he grew up in a Nazi family... lol

    LOL is right... Better loosen up that tin-foil beanie a little, it's
    cutting off the blood flow to your brain.

    get real.

    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really after you.

    I hope you feel better soon.



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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Sat Apr 11 13:01:38 2026
    On Saturday, April 11th Gamgee said...
    Multiple "hand gestures". His overwhelming support for AfD. His
    support
    for the idea of the "replacement theory". His constant "Jew hating"
    posts. The fact that he grew up in a Nazi family... lol
    LOL is right... Better loosen up that tin-foil beanie a little, it's cutting off the blood flow to your brain.


    So you're claim is these are not real things? I can list many more if you'd like, this is fun! His recent haircut Hitler cosplay, matching Bovino's SS cosplay, guess he wanted in. His reinstate of the various VERY OPEN racist/nazis to X. X is now a haven for fully bonified Nazis.


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Sat Apr 11 15:04:02 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    LOL is right... Better loosen up that tin-foil beanie a little, it's cutting off the blood flow to your brain.

    So you're claim is these are not real things? I can list many more if you'd like, this is fun! His recent haircut Hitler cosplay, matching Bovino's SS cosplay, guess he wanted in. His reinstate of the various
    VERY OPEN racist/nazis to X. X is now a haven for fully bonified Nazis.

    I don't know if they're real or not. Neither do you, for absolute
    certainty. What I do know is that many things of this type are
    hyper-reported in the media, and made out to be more than what they
    really are, for purely political reasons. I'm gonna leave it at that.

    |08 ¬ûá |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ¬ûá |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08
    |08 ¬ûá |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDi

    What is all this garbage? If it's specific to a certain BBS flavor,
    maybe it doesn't belong in an echomail message?



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  • From Mike Powell@21:1/175.6 to Gamgee on Sat Apr 11 22:51:44 2026
    |08 ��� |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ��� |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08
    |08 ��� |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08|
    |03ACiDi

    What is all this garbage? If it's specific to a certain BBS flavor,
    maybe it doesn't belong in an echomail message?


    I think they are pipe codes that some BBS softwares translate to ANSI.
    I thought that Synchronet did but it has been a while since I have read
    a message online so I am not sure.

    SLMR does not translate them. :)

    Mike

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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Gamgee on Sun Apr 12 13:16:50 2026
    LOL is right... Better loosen up that tin-foil beanie a little, it's cutting off the blood flow to your brain.

    So you're claim is these are not real things? I can list many more if you'd like, this is fun! His recent haircut Hitler cosplay, matching Bovino's SS cosplay, guess he wanted in. His reinstate of the various VERY OPEN racist/nazis to X. X is now a haven for fully bonified Nazi

    I don't know if they're real or not. Neither do you, for absolute certainty. What I do know is that many things of this type are hyper-reported in the media, and made out to be more than what they really are, for purely political reasons. I'm gonna leave it at that.


    Just judge for yourself. I judge Elon by his words and actions, and I'll interpret them myself. If someone wants to say this or that, thats up to them, and usually it just reveals more about their stance than it does Elons.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to boraxman on Sat Apr 11 21:34:18 2026
    boraxman wrote to Gamgee <=-

    LOL is right... Better loosen up that tin-foil beanie a little, it's cutting off the blood flow to your brain.

    So you're claim is these are not real things? I can list many more if you'd like, this is fun! His recent haircut Hitler cosplay, matching Bovino's SS cosplay, guess he wanted in. His reinstate of the various VERY OPEN racist/nazis to X. X is now a haven for fully bonified Nazi

    I don't know if they're real or not. Neither do you, for absolute certainty. What I do know is that many things of this type are hyper-reported in the media, and made out to be more than what they
    really are, for purely political reasons. I'm gonna leave it at that.

    Just judge for yourself. I judge Elon by his words and actions, and
    I'll interpret them myself. If someone wants to say this or that,
    thats up to them, and usually it just reveals more about their stance
    than it does Elons.

    Yep, agreed on all of that.



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 11 21:34:18 2026
    Mike Powell wrote to Gamgee <=-

    |08 n.'n.'n.' |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of
    fear|07
    "
    |08 n.'n.'n.' |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08
    |08 n.'n.'n.' |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE
    |08
    |
    |03ACiDi

    What is all this garbage? If it's specific to a certain BBS flavor,
    maybe it doesn't belong in an echomail message?

    I think they are pipe codes that some BBS softwares translate to ANSI.
    I thought that Synchronet did but it has been a while since I have read
    a message online so I am not sure.

    Yep, I guess that's what those are, but I don't think they should be
    included in echomail where many different softwares don't recognize
    them. On my SBBS system they are not displayed as ANSI/color, just the gibberish shown above.

    SLMR does not translate them. :)

    Neither does MultiMail.



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 11 21:12:08 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Mike Powell to Gamgee on Sat Apr 11 2026 10:51 pm

    I think they are pipe codes that some BBS softwares translate to ANSI. I thought that Synchronet did but it has been a while since I have read a message online so I am not sure.

    Synchronet does have the ability to translate pipe codes to ANSI, but it's a toggle option that the sysop of a Synchronet BBS has to enable, and I think it's disabled by default.

    Nightfox
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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Mike Powell on Sun Apr 12 16:34:02 2026

    Hello Mike!

    11 Apr 26 22:51, you wrote to Gamgee:

    |08 ��� |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08|
    |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDi

    What is all this garbage? If it's specific to a certain BBS
    flavor, maybe it doesn't belong in an echomail message?


    I think they are pipe codes that some BBS softwares translate to ANSI.

    They are, and are useless junk to those that don't run that specific bbs software.




    Vorlon


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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Mike Powell on Sun Apr 12 11:17:13 2026
    Twas Saturday, April 11th when Mike Powell said...

    ��� NuSkooler //
    Xibalba - "The place of f

    ��� xibalba.vip
    (44510/telnet,

    44511/ssh

    ��� ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |
    Phenom | 67 | iMPU



    I can see that someone's reader/writer borked both the encodin
    g and pipes.


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    ear|07"
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    |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPU
    RE |08| |03ACiDic

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to boraxman on Sun Apr 12 11:20:07 2026
    On Monday, April 13th boraxman said...
    I don't know if they're real or not. Neither do you, for absolute certainty. What I do know is that many things of this type are hyper-reported in the media, and made out to be more than what they really are, for purely political reasons.

    What a bunch of nonse. Yes I do. You can go read every bit of what I stated from Elon himself. Step into reality people. This type of "I don't know if it's real" nonsense is some sort of new "I dont' want to be wrong" copout crap.

    It's real. You could spend a literal 5 minutes validating such things. You could watch Elon's speeches at AfD. You could read HIS own words, his interviews, etc. Don't bother with the media, go to the source.





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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Sun Apr 12 11:21:31 2026
    On Saturday, April 11th Gamgee said...
    Yep, I guess that's what those are, but I don't think they should be included in echomail where many different softwares don't recognize them. On my SBBS system they are not displayed as ANSI/color, just the gibberish shown above.

    We've (BSS users) been doing this (sigs with pipe codes) since the early 90's at least.

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Vorlon on Sun Apr 12 11:23:26 2026
    Vorlon around Monday, April 13th...
    They are, and are useless junk to those that don't run that specific bbs software.

    Funny, I've been mostly MIA for about 6-12 months here. I come back, and we have everyone crying about stuff that's been used since '90 or so. Pipe codes have been around since at least Renegade. We've all been using them forever... did a bunch of grumps from FidoNet just show up? Is that what happened?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Gamgee on Sun Apr 12 10:30:51 2026
    Gamgee wrote to Exodus <=-

    Exodus wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I thought politics weren't supposed to be in play around here.

    You know how it goes. Do as the democrap's say, not as they do.

    Yup. "Rules for thee, but not for Me..." ;-)

    You're still talking about politics on an apolitical message network.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Mike Powell on Sun Apr 12 10:30:51 2026
    Mike Powell wrote to Gamgee <=-


    I think they are pipe codes that some BBS softwares translate to ANSI.
    I thought that Synchronet did but it has been a while since I have read
    a message online so I am not sure.

    SLMR does not translate them. :)

    Multimail doesn't. I wish that it could interpret BBS color codes,
    things would look much better.



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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Nuskooler on Sun Apr 12 15:34:36 2026
    ��� NuSkooler 22;
    Xibalba - "The place of f
    40m
    ��� xiba
    ba.vip (44510/22;
    6mtelnet,
    44511/ssh

    Shows this way on Renegade as well. No pipe codes here except for the red xibala, and the yellow the place of ... the rest of just high ascii garbage.

    ... Do not look in laser with remaining eye.

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Nuskooler on Sun Apr 12 15:35:42 2026
    ■ NuSkooler // Xibalba - "The place of fear"
    ■ xibalba.vip (44510/telnet, 44
    ^^^^

    Whatever this is, is getting turned into a garbled mess. The rest shows fine over here.

    ... OS/2: Your brain. Windows: Your brain on drugs.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Sun Apr 12 17:06:29 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Yep, I guess that's what those are, but I don't think they should be included in echomail where many different softwares don't recognize
    them. On my SBBS system they are not displayed as ANSI/color, just the gibberish shown above.

    We've (BSS users) been doing this (sigs with pipe codes) since the
    early 90's at least.

    Yep, I know.

    What I'm saying is that those are fine on a local message base, but on
    an echomail network... How many people will see those as you meant them
    to be seen? Nowadays, *VERY* few people use BBS software that displays
    that junk properly. What's the point of doing it?



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  • From Al@21:4/106 to NuSkooler on Sun Apr 12 15:50:32 2026
    Funny, I've been mostly MIA for about 6-12 months here. I come back, and we have everyone crying about stuff that's been used since '90 or so. Pipe codes have been around since at least Renegade. We've all been using them forever... did a bunch of grumps from FidoNet just show up? Is that what happened?

    Not everyone is complaining. There are always a few of course but not everyone.

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Sun Apr 12 17:02:54 2026
    On Sunday, April 12th Gamgee was heard saying...
    What I'm saying is that those are fine on a local message base, but on an echomail network... How many people will see those as you meant them to be seen? Nowadays, *VERY* few people use BBS software that displays that junk properly. What's the point of doing it?

    You're on a BBS network, for BBS users, and assuming people aren't using BBSes to view the things?

    I just ran some numbers showing what and from what software:

    Scanned 15,000 msgs from 437 FTN users (14,379 FTN posts)

    +----------------+-----+------+---------------------+---------+
    | Software | Usr | Msg | Sig Style | CHRS | +----------------+-----+------+---------------------+---------+
    | Mystic BBS | 217 | 7015 | 160pln 33pip 24ansi | none |
    | Synchronet | 86 | 3669 | 68pln 10pip 8ansi | mix |
    | Other | 52 | 1442 | 50pln 2pip | mix |
    | CNet/5 | 35 | 799 | 8pln 27pip | none |
    | MultiMail | 4 | 563 | 1pln 3pip | CP437 |
    | Renegade | 6 | 258 | 5pln 1ansi | none |
    | GoldED+ | 9 | 166 | 8pln 1pip | mix |
    | WWIV | 7 | 129 | 2pln 5pip | CP437 |
    | Clearing Houz | 1 | 102 | 1pip | CP437 |
    | ScorpioWeb | 2 | 81 | 1pln 1pip | mix |
    | Platinum Xpres | 7 | 67 | 6pln 1pip | none |
    | MPost | 1 | 38 | 1ansi | IBMPC |
    | BinktermPHP | 6 | 27 | 4pln 1pip 1ansi | UTF-8 |
    | ViSiON/3 | 1 | 15 | 1ansi | none |
    | April | 1 | 3 | 1pip | LATIN-1 |
    | Oblivion/2 | 1 | 3 | 1pip | none |
    | Iniquity | 1 | 2 | 1pip | none | +----------------+-----+------+---------------------+---------+

    CHRS across all users:
    (none) 302 69.1% \
    ASCII 1 52 11.9% |-- 92.0% effectively CP437
    CP437 2 48 11.0% |
    IBMPC 2 3 0.7% /
    UTF-8 4 19 4.3%
    LATIN-1 9 2.1%
    CP850 2 3 0.7%
    UTF-8 2 1 0.2%

    ...so I changed my default to CP437 vs UTF-8 since readers are borking and to support older software. But what's interesting there is the other bits of data: the majority of messages are comming from BBSes, and actively maintained BBSes at that.


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    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Al on Sun Apr 12 17:24:22 2026
    On Sunday, April 12th Al muttered...
    Not everyone is complaining. There are always a few of course but not everyone.

    Very true, apologies for being grumpy.

    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 08:27:22 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On Sunday, April 12th Gamgee was heard saying...
    What I'm saying is that those are fine on a local message base, but on
    an echomail network... How many people will see those as you meant them to be seen? Nowadays, *VERY* few people use BBS software that displays that junk properly. What's the point of doing it?

    You're on a BBS network, for BBS users, and assuming people aren't
    using BBSes to view the things?

    Ummmm, no. For clarity, I'm using an offline reader (Multimail) to read
    the BBS messages. But that's actually irrelevant... see below.

    I just ran some numbers showing what and from what software:

    Scanned 15,000 msgs from 437 FTN users (14,379 FTN posts)

    +----------------+-----+------+---------------------+---------+
    | Software | Usr | Msg | Sig Style | CHRS |
    +----------------+-----+------+---------------------+---------+
    | Mystic BBS | 217 | 7015 | 160pln 33pip 24ansi | none |
    | Synchronet | 86 | 3669 | 68pln 10pip 8ansi | mix |
    | Other | 52 | 1442 | 50pln 2pip | mix |
    | CNet/5 | 35 | 799 | 8pln 27pip | none |
    | MultiMail | 4 | 563 | 1pln 3pip | CP437 |
    | Renegade | 6 | 258 | 5pln 1ansi | none |
    | GoldED+ | 9 | 166 | 8pln 1pip | mix |
    | WWIV | 7 | 129 | 2pln 5pip | CP437 |
    | Clearing Houz | 1 | 102 | 1pip | CP437 |
    | ScorpioWeb | 2 | 81 | 1pln 1pip | mix |
    | Platinum Xpres | 7 | 67 | 6pln 1pip | none |
    | MPost | 1 | 38 | 1ansi | IBMPC |
    | BinktermPHP | 6 | 27 | 4pln 1pip 1ansi | UTF-8 |
    | ViSiON/3 | 1 | 15 | 1ansi | none |
    | April | 1 | 3 | 1pip | LATIN-1 |
    | Oblivion/2 | 1 | 3 | 1pip | none |
    | Iniquity | 1 | 2 | 1pip | none |
    +----------------+-----+------+---------------------+---------+

    CHRS across all users:
    (none) 302 69.1% \
    ASCII 1 52 11.9% |-- 92.0% effectively CP437
    CP437 2 48 11.0% |
    IBMPC 2 3 0.7% /
    UTF-8 4 19 4.3%
    LATIN-1 9 2.1%
    CP850 2 3 0.7%
    UTF-8 2 1 0.2%

    ...so I changed my default to CP437 vs UTF-8 since readers are borking
    and to support older software. But what's interesting there is the
    other bits of data: the majority of messages are comming from BBSes,
    and actively maintained BBSes at that.

    I'm not sure we're even talking about the same thing. I'm not talking
    about character sets or UTF-8 vs CP437. I'm talking about *PIPE*
    *CODES* in messages, that are specific to one (maybe a couple?) flavor
    of BBS. They do not display correctly on *MANY* BBSes, whether read
    directly on the BBS, or with an offline mail reader. They look like
    gibberish text.


    |08 = |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 = |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08,
    ||0344511|08/|03ssh|08)
    |08 = |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08|
    ||03ACiDic

    I put quote marks in front of the "signature" block above, in the hopes
    that it will come through as looking like gibberish to you. That's how
    it looks to most people. Like garbage.



    ... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly
    === MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138)
  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to NuSkooler on Tue Apr 14 01:33:48 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to boraxman <=-

    On Monday, April 13th boraxman said...
    I don't know if they're real or not. Neither do you, for absolute certainty. What I do know is that many things of this type are hyper-reported in the media, and made out to be more than what they
    really are, for purely political reasons.

    What a bunch of nonse. Yes I do. You can go read every bit of what I stated from Elon himself. Step into reality people. This type of "I
    don't know if it's real" nonsense is some sort of new "I dont' want to
    be wrong" copout crap.

    It's real. You could spend a literal 5 minutes validating such things.
    You could watch Elon's speeches at AfD. You could read HIS own words,
    his interviews, etc. Don't bother with the media, go to the source.

    Yes, I'm aware of what Elon has said. He spoke at the "Unite the
    Kingdom" rally in the UK.

    I know some people equate that with particular politics, because they
    don't think that decent people would think such things.

    Heres the thing. People have a problem with it, but then they demand
    that *I* take the same issue with it that they do. But if my
    heirarchy of values differs, then there is no agreement.

    What matters to me, is what risk does this person pose? If the risk
    is that they contravene someone elses values, then so what?

    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Mon Apr 13 07:57:33 2026
    Gamgee around Monday, April 13th...
    Ummmm, no. For clarity, I'm using an offline reader (Multimail) to read the BBS messages. But that's actually irrelevant... see below.

    I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about your your general claim, the fact that we are on BBSes on a BBS network for BBS users, and the fact that the numbers don't lie.


    Gamgee around Monday, April 13th...
    I'm not sure we're even talking about the same thing.


    Gamgee around Monday, April 13th...
    Mystic BBS | 217 | 7015 | 160pln 33pip 24ansi | none | | Synchronet | 86 | 3669 | 68pln 10pip 8ansi | mix | | Other | 52 | 1442 | 50pln 2pip | mix | |

    ...so on. So from Mystic, 33 unique pipe signatures, 24 unique (as in users) ANSI signatures; 10 pipe, 8 ANSI from Sync, etc.

    My readers shows them just fine.

    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to boraxman on Mon Apr 13 08:00:03 2026
    On Tuesday, April 14th boraxman said...
    What matters to me, is what risk does this person pose? If the risk is that they contravene someone elses values, then so what?

    One of the richest humans on the planet, which a reach into the daily lives of millions and millions, whom shapes politics around the globe, and you believe they "post no risk"?


    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From Mike Powell@21:1/175.6 to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 08:44:04 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to boraxman <=-

    What a bunch of nonse. Yes I do. You can go read every bit of what I stated from Elon himself. Step into reality people. This type of "I
    don't know if it's real" nonsense is some sort of new "I dont' want to
    be wrong" copout crap.

    Even before his DOGE days, Elon just seemed like the type who was arrogant enough to see some science/science fiction thing that someone did and, instead of learning the lesson would decide he could do it "better."

    A lof of "tech bros" give me that vibe so I don't trust them.


    ... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
    --- MultiMail/DOS
    * Origin: Project Scorpio TEST (21:1/175.6)
  • From Mike Powell@21:1/175.6 to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 08:55:32 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    ...so I changed my default to CP437 vs UTF-8 since readers are borking
    and to support older software. But what's interesting there is the
    other bits of data: the majority of messages are comming from BBSes,
    and actively maintained BBSes at that.


    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08)
    |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic

    FWIW, it looks different now. The funny characters at the beginning of
    each line are gone and replaced with the pipes.



    ... Spelling is a sober man's game
    --- MultiMail/DOS
    * Origin: Project Scorpio TEST (21:1/175.6)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Mike Powell on Mon Apr 13 08:46:52 2026
    Twas Monday, April 13th when Mike Powell said...
    Even before his DOGE days, Elon just seemed like the type who was arrogant enough to see some science/science fiction thing that someone did and, instead of learning the lesson would decide he could do it
    A lof of "tech bros" give me that vibe so I don't trust them.

    100% - Read up on Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin -- and I mean directly, they write books, they talk, they post. These are some of the most influencial perosns in tech right now, mostly behind the scenes. The entire US cabinet is in bed with Thiel and co. All of the AI tech bros follow their mantra, which believe me, is not good for anyone but them.


    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Mike Powell on Mon Apr 13 08:47:44 2026
    Mike Powell around Monday, April 13th...
    FWIW, it looks different now. The funny characters at the beginning of each line are gone and replaced with the pipes.

    Ty for the update! I switched my defualt encoding to CP437 instead of UTF-8 since it seems most readers are ignoring CHRS and/or software that doesn't support UTF-8.


    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 13:23:17 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Mystic BBS | 217 | 7015 | 160pln 33pip 24ansi | none | | Synchronet | 86 | 3669 | 68pln 10pip 8ansi | mix | | Other | 52 | 1442 | 50pln 2pip | mix | |

    ...so on. So from Mystic, 33 unique pipe signatures, 24 unique (as in users) ANSI signatures; 10 pipe, 8 ANSI from Sync, etc.

    Okay so you're a "numbers guy". Got it.

    My readers shows them just fine.

    Mine don't.

    |08 = |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 = |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08)
    |08 = |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic

    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in what
    is probably the most widely used BBS software today... (Synchronet). Is
    it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by a select few BBS
    softwares?



    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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  • From Accession@21:1/700 to Gamgee on Mon Apr 13 17:09:02 2026
    Hey Gamgee!

    On Mon, Apr 13 2026 13:23:17 -0500, you wrote:

    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in
    what is probably the most widely used BBS software today...
    (Synchronet). Is it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by
    a select few BBS softwares?

    For what it's worth, you can "enable" them in Synchronet (SCFG > System > Extra Attribute Codes... > Renegade Pipe Codes = Yes). However, they still won't display properly in MultiMail because MultiMail doesn't support that. Neither does any other "offline" readers, or NNTP clients, or sysop readers like Golded+, MsgEd, TimEd, etc.

    You have to actually be logged into a BBS software that supports them to actually see the colors those codes are attempting to produce, and yes.. quite a few BBS softwares do support them, except specific BBS software that have their own way of coloring text (ie: PCBoard, Wildcat, WWIV, Celerity, and maybe some others, but Synchronet itself supports any of the ones I just listed).

    I don't know if there is a way to support them on the BBS itself, and then strip them when a QWK packet is made? If not, maybe a feature request for an option to do so just for the purpose of offline readers?

    Could also see if there is a way to actually get support added to MultiMail for it? The source is available. SlyMail (a new offline reader by Nightfox) may already support this (though from what I remember you pretty much swear by MM and don't explore anything else these days). If it doesn't, he may be willing to add it as it already supports UTF-8 as well as ANSI display (and even both!).

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (21:1/700)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Accession on Mon Apr 13 15:32:54 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Accession to Gamgee on Mon Apr 13 2026 05:09 pm

    Could also see if there is a way to actually get support added to MultiMail for it? The source is available. SlyMail (a new offline reader by Nightfox) may already support this (though from what I remember you pretty much swear by MM and don't explore anything else these days). If it doesn't, he may be willing to add it as it already supports UTF-8 as well as ANSI display (and even both!).

    Yes, I've added support to SlyMail to parse color codes for various BBS packages, so those should look okay in SlyMail.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From deon@21:2/116 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 08:41:51 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 2026 01:23 pm

    Howdy,

    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in what
    is probably the most widely used BBS software today... (Synchronet). Is
    it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by a select few BBS softwares?

    FWIW, I use Synchronet and they look fine to me.


    ...δεσ∩
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
    * Origin: I'm playing with ANSI+videotex - wanna play too? (21:2/116)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Mon Apr 13 18:28:22 2026
    Gamgee around Monday, April 13th...
    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in what is probably the most widely used BBS software today... (Synchronet). Is it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by a select few BBS softwares?

    I'm glad you asked!

    Pipe codes have been used since Renegade, at least, so around '93? Supported by at least Mystic, Synchronet (turn them on; https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:colors), Enthrall, WWIV, Telegard, Oblivion/2, iNiQUiTY, ...

    Synchronet's own color code system, as you can see, is "Ctrl-A" codes, but can also support Celerity and PCBoard style codes.


    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 13 18:29:51 2026
    Twas Monday, April 13th when Nightfox said...
    Yes, I've added support to SlyMail to parse color codes for various BBS packages, so those should look okay in SlyMail.

    And history is made!


    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 20:58:44 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in what
    is probably the most widely used BBS software today... (Synchronet). Is it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by a select few BBS softwares?

    I'm glad you asked!

    Pipe codes have been used since Renegade, at least, so around '93? Supported by at least Mystic, Synchronet (turn them on; https://wiki.synchro.net/custom:colors), Enthrall, WWIV, Telegard, Oblivion/2, iNiQUiTY, ...

    Synchronet's own color code system, as you can see, is "Ctrl-A" codes,
    but can also support Celerity and PCBoard style codes.

    Yes, it turns out that I did NOT have those additional color codes
    turned on, but I went in and turned them on for the FSXNet message
    areas... and they still don't display when reading messages on the BBS.

    I do realize they won't show when reading in an OLR like MultiMail, but wondering why they don't show in the actual BBS reading function.
    Unless... I do have Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module enabled, perhaps
    that's the reason. Will keep banging on it, thanks.



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to deon on Mon Apr 13 20:58:44 2026
    deon wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in what
    is probably the most widely used BBS software today... (Synchronet). Is
    it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by a select few BBS softwares?

    FWIW, I use Synchronet and they look fine to me.

    Interesting. They do not show for me while reading messages on the BBS.

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.



    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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    * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Accession on Mon Apr 13 20:58:44 2026
    Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Maybe you, (or anyone) can tell me why they don't show properly in
    what is probably the most widely used BBS software today...
    (Synchronet). Is it me, or is it "proprietary" color codes used by
    a select few BBS softwares?

    For what it's worth, you can "enable" them in Synchronet (SCFG > System
    Ac > Extra Attribute Codes... > Renegade Pipe Codes = Yes). However,
    they still won
    't display properly in MultiMail because MultiMail doesn't support
    that. Neither does any other "offline" readers, or NNTP clients, or
    sysop readers like Golded+, MsgEd, TimEd, etc.

    Yes, I realize they won't work in MultiMail, and I did NOT have the
    extra codes enabled in SCFG, but I do now, and still not displaying
    while reading on the BBS.

    You have to actually be logged into a BBS software that supports them
    to actually see the colors those codes are attempting to produce, and yes.. quite a few BBS softwares do support them, except specific BBS software that have their own way of coloring text (ie: PCBoard,
    Wildcat, WWIV, Celerity, and maybe some others, but Synchronet itself supports any of the ones I just listed).

    I'm wondering if using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module may be the cause
    of them not displaying properly. Gonna see if I can remember how to NOT
    use that for a minute...

    I don't know if there is a way to support them on the BBS itself, and
    then strip them when a QWK packet is made? If not, maybe a feature
    request for an option to do so just for the purpose of offline readers?

    Might be possible, dunno.

    Could also see if there is a way to actually get support added to MultiMail for it? The source is available. SlyMail (a new offline
    reader by Nightfox) may already support this (though from what I
    remember you pretty much swear by MM and don't explore anything else
    these days). If it doesn't, he may be willing to add it as it already supports UTF-8 as well as ANSI display (and even both!).

    I have asked the MM author a couple of things over the years, and gotten absolute silence back as a response. Probably not likely to get
    anything there.

    Thanks for the reply, I'm gonna keep banging on it for a bit, until I
    lose interest and wander off to something else... ;-)

    Regards,
    Dan



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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Mon Apr 13 21:08:36 2026
    Twas Monday, April 13th when Gamgee said...
    Yes, it turns out that I did NOT have those additional color codes turned on, but I went in and turned them on for the FSXNet message areas... and they still don't display when reading messages on the BBS.

    Odd, as far as I understand that *should* work.

    --
    |08 ■ |12NuSkooler |06// |12Xibalba |08- |07"|06The place of fear|07"
    |08 ■ |03xibalba|08.|03vip |08(|0344510|08/|03telnet|08, |0344511|08/|03ssh|08) |08 ■ |03ENiGMA 1/2 WHQ |08| |03Phenom |08| |0367 |08| |03iMPURE |08| |03ACiDic --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.2.0-beta (linux; x64; 22.22.2)
    * Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.vip:44510 (21:1/121)
  • From deon@21:2/116 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 15:07:40 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to deon on Mon Apr 13 2026 08:58 pm

    Howdy,

    Interesting. They do not show for me while reading messages on the BBS.

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.

    Not anymore.

    I had a few things that werent quite right with it, and instead of debugging it, I reverted back to the original way.

    I can test it though, I think its still enabled for list messages for me.


    ...δεσ∩
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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 15:10:07 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to deon on Mon Apr 13 2026 08:58 pm

    Howdy,

    FWIW, I use Synchronet and they look fine to me.

    Interesting. They do not show for me while reading messages on the BBS.

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.

    I just tried with it and its seems to render fine too...


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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to NuSkooler on Wed Apr 15 02:17:22 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to boraxman <=-

    On Tuesday, April 14th boraxman said...
    What matters to me, is what risk does this person pose? If the risk is that they contravene someone elses values, then so what?

    One of the richest humans on the planet, which a reach into the daily lives of millions and millions, whom shapes politics around the globe,
    and you believe they "post no risk"?

    There are many people who do, and who have, had that position and it
    hasn't been a disaster. There will always be people who are rich.

    Perhaps "no risk" is incorrect, but I would say it doesn't
    automatically make them a major concern. There are people who have
    less power, who have a bigger impact on my life. There are some
    people who have not that much money, who cause chaos and ruin lives.

    I fully understand why some people hate Musk, or thing he is
    misguided. Certaintly some ideas of his, such as the hyperloop, or
    the use of tunnels for cars weren't going to work out, but people do
    need to experiment.

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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to NuSkooler on Wed Apr 15 02:17:22 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    Twas Monday, April 13th when Mike Powell said...
    Even before his DOGE days, Elon just seemed like the type who was
    arrogant enough to see some science/science fiction thing that someone
    did and, instead of learning the lesson would decide he could do it
    A lof of "tech bros" give me that vibe so I don't trust them.

    100% - Read up on Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin -- and I mean directly, they write books, they talk, they post. These are some of the most influencial perosns in tech right now, mostly behind the scenes. The entire US cabinet is in bed with Thiel and co. All of the AI tech bros follow their mantra, which believe me, is not good for anyone but them.

    I haven't heard much of Thiel, but I have heard of Curtis, and
    listened to an interview or two. His focus seems more political,
    commentary on the state of Western Civ than on technology.

    He seems to talk and write a LOT in public, so "behind the scenes"
    isn't perhaps apropos? He's telling you exactly what he thinks! Is
    the issue that people are listening? I really don't get the
    dramatics.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 07:39:55 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to NuSkooler on Mon Apr 13 2026 08:58 pm

    I do realize they won't show when reading in an OLR like MultiMail, but wondering why they don't show in the actual BBS reading function. Unless... I do have Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module enabled, perhaps that's the reason. Will keep banging on it, thanks.

    DDMsgReader does support those, and it should enable the color codes according to the settings in SCFG. I've tested those and I've seen it working, as far as I can tell.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to deon on Tue Apr 14 07:41:14 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: deon to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 2026 03:07 pm

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm
    wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.

    Not anymore.

    I had a few things that werent quite right with it, and instead of debugging it, I reverted back to the original way.

    You can always let me know if you see anything that doesn't behave as expected, and then I can try to fix it..

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to NuSkooler on Tue Apr 14 07:41:26 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    100% - Read up on Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin -- and I mean directly, they write books, they talk, they post. These are some of the most influencial perosns in tech right now, mostly behind the scenes. The entire US cabinet is in bed with Thiel and co. All of the AI tech bros follow their mantra, which believe me, is not good for anyone but them.

    There was a political movement (although that's giving it too much
    credit) in San Francisco where tech elite imagined creating separate
    plutocracies run by "grays", a tech-friendly political tribe run by VC
    money.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 07:46:26 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to deon on Mon Apr 13 2026 08:58 pm

    Interesting. They do not show for me while reading messages on the BBS.

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.

    As a quick test, I posted a message on my BBS with Renegade color codes, and I see the colors correctly when reading with DDMsgReader:

    http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/screenshots/renegade_codes.png

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to deon on Tue Apr 14 10:38:02 2026
    deon wrote to Gamgee <=-

    FWIW, I use Synchronet and they look fine to me.

    Interesting. They do not show for me while reading messages on the BBS.

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.

    I just tried with it and its seems to render fine too...

    OK, thanks for that info, I'm gonna look again and maybe restart
    everything to see if it helps.



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 10:38:02 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I do realize they won't show when reading in an OLR like MultiMail, but wondering why they don't show in the actual BBS reading function. Unless... I do have Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module enabled, perhaps that's the reason. Will keep banging on it, thanks.

    DDMsgReader does support those, and it should enable the color codes according to the settings in SCFG. I've tested those and I've seen it working, as far as I can tell.

    Okay thanks for that info, appreciate it! Gonna re-check everything
    when I can find a minute.



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 10:38:02 2026
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Interesting. They do not show for me while reading messages on the BBS.

    Are you using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module on the SBBS system? I'm wondering if that may be the reason. Thanks.

    As a quick test, I posted a message on my BBS with Renegade color
    codes, and I see the colors correctly when reading with DDMsgReader:

    http://digitaldistortionbbs.com/screenshots/renegade_codes.png

    Cool, that does look correct, thanks.



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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to boraxman on Tue Apr 14 12:22:04 2026
    boraxman around Wednesday, April 15th...
    There are many people who do, and who have, had that position and it hasn't been a disaster. There will always be people who are rich.

    Who? Example? There is a huge difference between "rich" and Trillionaire. One shouldn't exist, unless the system is completely broken. Which it is.

    I can name various persons in this category, not a single one of them would be "not of major concern".

    On Wednesday, April 15th boraxman muttered...
    I fully understand why some people hate Musk, or thing he is misguided. Certaintly some ideas of his, such as the hyperloop, or the use of tunnels for cars weren't going to work out, but people do need to

    I mean, without Musk, we'd not be on a good path for EVs -- but they were not his invention, he just bought the company. But Trump squashed that. What do you know, another billionaire con man. Hyperloop just sucked up funding and disapeared (also, that was the tunnel thing).

    Elon isn't an inventor. He's a rich boy that comes from a rich, bloody hands family.


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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to boraxman on Tue Apr 14 12:27:14 2026
    On Wednesday, April 15th boraxman muttered...
    I haven't heard much of Thiel, but I have heard of Curtis, and listened to an interview or two. His focus seems more political, commentary on the state of Western Civ than on technology.

    You should do some more listening & reading. Thiel owns Plantir, which is spying on you *right now*. He's the "other guy" that came from Paypal along with Musk. Both are from very well known S. African slaveholder families.

    Yarvin is incredibly influencial to Thiel, JD Vance (He's the one that propped him up and made him a thing -- his "pet project" (his words)). He's "behind the scenes" because he's one of the biggest influencers in what is happening right now, directly with Thiel, Trump Admin in general, some other tech bros like Sam Altman, etc. This is a crew that is actively and very purposfully breaking down states so they can be grabbed and managed as "Network Cities".

    All sounds like a grand conspiracy, but like you said, they do in fact talk in the open. They just don't "advertise".


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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 15 07:50:32 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Nightfox to deon on Tue Apr 14 2026 07:41 am

    Howdy,

    I had a few things that werent quite right with it, and instead of debugging it, I reverted back to the original way.

    You can always let me know if you see anything that doesn't behave as expected, and then I can try to fix it..

    I know, but Im time poor at the moment.

    There were 3 things that I noticed:

    * My mode of operandi when logging in and seeing the pink banners that there is mail to me, is to read it first. IE: "Scan msgs to me". Then I go back and read all new mail.

    I started to notice that when I went to read all mail, it was missing messages - and I assume that my last read pointer was being set because of the read all to me, and thus anything new before the first message to me was being skipped.

    * When reading all new messages to me, if I had more than 1 (eg: 3), and I replied to one of them, when I finished reading the 3rd, I then noticed I had more than 3 to read - however the additional ones were duplicates of the 1st 3.

    * When reading messages and going to the next group. My laset read message number was being set for the next group, not going to the last read message in the group. (I alerted to you of this issue already).

    IE: If I was reading message #5 in sub A, and then went to sub B where the last message I read was #10, it would start me of at message #5, so I was reading old messages again.


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  • From Accession@21:1/700 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 16:46:53 2026
    Hey Gamgee!

    On Mon, Apr 13 2026 20:58:44 -0500, you wrote:

    Yes, I realize they won't work in MultiMail, and I did NOT have the
    extra codes enabled in SCFG, but I do now, and still not displaying
    while reading on the BBS.

    Did you restart the server?

    I'm wondering if using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module may be the
    cause of them not displaying properly. Gonna see if I can remember
    how to NOT use that for a minute...

    If there's no option in DDMR's configuration, then it is purely based on the SCFG settings.

    I have asked the MM author a couple of things over the years, and
    gotten absolute silence back as a response. Probably not likely to
    get anything there.

    Bummer. Then again, the source is there if anyone else were up to the task. ;)

    Thanks for the reply, I'm gonna keep banging on it for a bit, until
    I lose interest and wander off to something else... ;-)

    LOL. I do that far too often these days!

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to deon on Tue Apr 14 15:26:16 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: deon to Nightfox on Wed Apr 15 2026 07:50 am

    * My mode of operandi when logging in and seeing the pink banners that there is mail to me, is to read it first. IE: "Scan msgs to me". Then I go back and read all new mail.

    I started to notice that when I went to read all mail, it was missing messages - and I assume that my last read pointer was being set because of the read all to me, and thus anything new before the first message to me was being skipped.

    Odd; I don't think I've seen that, but if I do, I'll be able to look into it and debug it.

    * When reading all new messages to me, if I had more than 1 (eg: 3), and I replied to one of them, when I finished reading the 3rd, I then noticed I had more than 3 to read - however the additional ones were duplicates of the 1st 3.

    I've been seeing that lately every so often, and it's something I plan to look into more deeply.

    * When reading messages and going to the next group. My laset read message number was being set for the next group, not going to the last read message in the group. (I alerted to you of this issue already).

    IE: If I was reading message #5 in sub A, and then went to sub B where the last message I read was #10, it would start me of at message #5, so I was reading old messages again.

    I don't recall seeing this either, but if I see it occuring for me, I'll be able to look into it and do some debugging.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Accession on Tue Apr 14 15:27:29 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Accession to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 2026 04:46 pm

    I'm wondering if using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module may be the cause of
    them not displaying properly. Gonna see if I can remember how to NOT use
    that for a minute...

    If there's no option in DDMR's configuration, then it is purely based on the SCFG settings.

    Yes, DDMsgReader uses Synchronet's settings (as configured in SCFG) regarding using colors for other BBS systems. I've verified that DDMsgReader works as expected in this regard.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Accession on Tue Apr 14 20:28:56 2026
    Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Yes, I realize they won't work in MultiMail, and I did NOT have the
    extra codes enabled in SCFG, but I do now, and still not displaying
    while reading on the BBS.

    Did you restart the server?

    I hadn't, but just did a few minutes ago and see no change.

    I'm wondering if using Nightfox's "DDMsgReader" module may be the
    cause of them not displaying properly. Gonna see if I can remember
    how to NOT use that for a minute...

    If there's no option in DDMR's configuration, then it is purely based
    on the SCFG settings.

    Yea, I don't see anything in DDMR configs... I have all BBS flavor
    codes enabled in the FSX message areas, in SCFG.

    I have asked the MM author a couple of things over the years, and
    gotten absolute silence back as a response. Probably not likely to
    get anything there.

    Bummer. Then again, the source is there if anyone else were up to the task. ;)

    Heh, probably, but that's not me... ;-)

    Thanks for the reply, I'm gonna keep banging on it for a bit, until
    I lose interest and wander off to something else... ;-)

    LOL. I do that far too often these days!

    So many distractions; so little time! Hahaha

    Thanks again,
    Dan



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to NuSkooler on Tue Apr 14 20:28:56 2026
    NuSkooler wrote to boraxman <=-

    I haven't heard much of Thiel, but I have heard of Curtis, and listened
    to an interview or two. His focus seems more political, commentary on
    the state of Western Civ than on technology.

    You should do some more listening & reading. Thiel owns Plantir, which
    is spying on you *right now*. He's the "other guy" that came from
    Paypal along with Musk. Both are from very well known S. African slaveholder families.

    Yarvin is incredibly influencial to Thiel, JD Vance (He's the one that propped him up and made him a thing -- his "pet project" (his words)). He's "behind the scenes" because he's one of the biggest influencers in what is happening right now, directly with Thiel, Trump Admin in
    general, some other tech bros like Sam Altman, etc. This is a crew that
    is actively and very purposfully breaking down states so they can be grabbed and managed as "Network Cities".

    So........ these guys are like Soros, Bloomberg, Hoffman, etc..., only financing the other side? It's OK when they do it?

    You're fine with what the likes of Soros and Bloomberg do? Their impact
    on society and government is perfectly fine, right?

    All sounds like a grand conspiracy, but like you said, they do in fact talk in the open. They just don't "advertise".

    It is indeed a grand conspiracy, and the big boys don't advertise. They
    just control and manipulate.

    I think we've strayed well beyond the no-politics rules around here, and
    I'm hereby bowing out of this conspiracy ...errr... conversation.



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 18:51:22 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 2026 10:38 am

    |00This is a test with Renegade color codes. |02This should appear in green. |03This should appear in cyan. |04This should appear red. |09High blue |10High green |11High cyan |12High red

    |04|23Nightfox

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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 22:14:48 2026
    This is a test with Renegade color codes. This should appear in green.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Ha!, I was going to make a joke this was BLACK ON BLACK ... as it showed nothing until I quoted it. That's weird.

    The rest showed fine, just not that sentence.

    ... Now in new great-tasting Grape and Watermelon flavor.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Exodus on Tue Apr 14 19:39:34 2026
    Re: Re: Renegade color codes
    By: Exodus to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 2026 10:14 pm

    This is a test with Renegade color codes. This should appear in green.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Ha!, I was going to make a joke this was BLACK ON BLACK ... as it showed nothing until I quoted it. That's weird.

    After I went back and read my test message, I saw the same thing; I realized I put a black color code at the beginning.. I meant to use the "normal" attribute code.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 21:43:14 2026
    Re: Renegade color codes
    By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Tue Apr 14 2026 06:51 pm

    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 2026 10:38 am

    |00This is a test with Renegade color codes. |02This should appear in green. |03This should appear in cyan. |04This should appear red. |09High blue |10High green |11High cyan |12High red

    |04|23Nightfox

    Strange, I'm still not seeing the colors, just the pipe codes themselves, followed by the text you wrote. Reading/writing this from within the BBS, using DDMsgReader (not offline with MultiMail).

    Not sure what else could be wrong. The extra attribute codes are enabled in the SCFG settings... Dunno.
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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 14 22:47:06 2026
    After I went back and read my test message, I saw the same thing; I realize put a black color code at the beginning.. I meant to use the "normal" attribute code.

    hahah ... I thought I was losing my mind. :)

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Geri Atricks on Wed Apr 15 03:29:31 2026
    Re: Re: Social Media (X)
    By: Geri Atricks to The Wanderer on Wed Apr 08 2026 01:15 pm


    Piss on Elon! He can go back to sucking on Trumps gerkin.
    ---

    So much for the no-politics and no controversies rule.


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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to NuSkooler on Thu Apr 16 00:54:48 2026
    boraxman around Wednesday, April 15th...
    There are many people who do, and who have, had that position and it hasn't been a disaster. There will always be people who are rich.

    Who? Example? There is a huge difference between "rich" and
    Trillionaire. One shouldn't exist, unless the system is completely
    broken. Which it is.

    I can name various persons in this category, not a single one of them would be "not of major concern".


    People who had influence, but were not wealthy (id, did not buy their influence, but had a negative effect)

    Karl Marx, whos ideas lead to a failed
    system that killed millions.

    Paul Ehrlich, who wrote "The Population Bomb", a book that DID influence
    many, many people, and turned out to be drastically wrong. We are now (supposedly) having to make up for the low birthrate, and he did a lot to scare people.

    Thomas Midgley Jr, Leaded petrol and CFCs


    I mean, without Musk, we'd not be on a good path for EVs -- but they
    were not his invention, he just bought the company. But Trump squashed that. What do you know, another billionaire con man. Hyperloop just
    sucked up funding and disapeared (also, that was the tunnel thing).

    Elon isn't an inventor. He's a rich boy that comes from a rich, bloody hands family.

    That is true, but such statements always reveals one politics.

    It is a simple observable fact that Tesla's are popular. At least they are in Australia. Inventing something and commercialising and making something useful are two different things. Its not enough to just invent it, you have to make it usable, have to make it solve problems.

    Take gunpowder for instance. You always hear about how China invented gunpowder, or paper first, but the use of these materials didn't go as far as it did in the West. They Byzantines it seems had some form of steam power, but didn't do more with it than some demonstrations. the British used steam to drive trains. Whether you like it or not, you can come up with a great idea, but the person who can make it a PRODUCT will get the financial reward because they are creating the items of value

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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to NuSkooler on Thu Apr 16 01:02:47 2026
    You should do some more listening & reading. Thiel owns Plantir, which is spying on you *right now*. He's the "other guy" that came from Paypal along with Musk. Both are from very well known S. African slaveholder families.

    Yarvin is incredibly influencial to Thiel, JD Vance (He's the one that propped him up and made him a thing -- his "pet project" (his words)). He's "behind the scenes" because he's one of the biggest influencers in what is happening right now, directly with Thiel, Trump Admin in
    general, some other tech bros like Sam Altman, etc. This is a crew that
    is actively and very purposfully breaking down states so they can be grabbed and managed as "Network Cities".

    All sounds like a grand conspiracy, but like you said, they do in fact talk in the open. They just don't "advertise".



    I do have a general idea of what the "Tech Bro's" want, but I haven't listened in great detail. I don't subscribe to their vision, but I also don't think that society is heading in that direction. There are other forces at work, other issues and social factors, which they are not accounting for, which will put a spanner in the works.

    Its perhaps why I haven't looked much further. I do know a little about Palantir, but I also hold the view that the move to a total surveillance state is not just happening because of some peoples ideas, but because the social dynamics is making it necessary for the state. That is to say, the DEMAND for what Thiel is doing exist, independently. I think it is somewhat inevitable that we will lose our freedoms and have everything monitored and curtailed, that was clear decades ago, and its either that or chaos. Personally, I think we need to go through the chaos, and come out the other side freer, but most disagree.

    I don't WANT it, Id like to avoid it, but freedom and modern society are sadly no longer compatible. This isn't the 1990s anymore. Australia is going the same way, and some politicians have been blunt and said that we need to crack down on freedom for social cohesion.

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Gamgee on Wed Apr 15 10:31:40 2026
    Gamgee around Tuesday, April 14th...
    So........ these guys are like Soros, Bloomberg, Hoffman, etc..., only financing the other side? It's OK when they do it?

    Strawman much? When did I say it's OK when "the others do it"?


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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to boraxman on Wed Apr 15 10:37:52 2026
    On Thursday, April 16th boraxman said...
    I don't WANT it, Id like to avoid it, but freedom and modern society are sadly no longer compatible. This isn't the 1990s anymore. Australia is going the same way, and some politicians have been blunt and said that we need to crack down on freedom for social cohesion.

    ...so fascism, by definition.


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Arelor on Thu Apr 16 11:29:15 2026
    Piss on Elon! He can go back to sucking on Trumps gerkin.
    So much for the no-politics and no controversies rule.

    Indeed. I do think that any discussion that involves people directly involved in lots of political controversies is... not going to end well.

    Not sure how to make this stop, though.

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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to NuSkooler on Fri Apr 17 00:55:44 2026
    I don't WANT it, Id like to avoid it, but freedom and modern society sadly no longer compatible. This isn't the 1990s anymore. Australia going the same way, and some politicians have been blunt and said tha need to crack down on freedom for social cohesion.

    ...so fascism, by definition.


    I'm not suggesting we SHOULD do this, I'm saying those in power are going to implement this as a social necessity. I'm predicting what they will do, and why they will do it.

    Authoritarianism more like it. Most empires need to be authoritarian to keep social order.

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to boraxman on Thu Apr 16 09:08:03 2026
    boraxman around Friday, April 17th...
    I'm not suggesting we SHOULD do this, I'm saying those in power are going to implement this as a social necessity. I'm predicting what they will do, and why they will do it.

    Gotcha, and yeah, I agree.


    boraxman around Friday, April 17th...
    Authoritarianism more like it. Most empires need to be authoritarian to keep social order.

    Human history has been mostly fascist or authoritarian, but plenty of cases where it has not (the US, for a bit, has been decent at it). Plenty of EU that fits the bill right now. Power hungry, greedy people will always be around to try to scoop it all up for sure.

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