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    From Adept@21:2/108 to All on Tue Mar 31 08:50:34 2026
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    Testing. Next up is to try and get an automated subject line.
    After that I'm planning on automating the posting, to happen shortly after
    midnight GMT.

    Enjoy the holiday, and perhaps stop by Storm BBS by telnetting to:
    telnet.stormbbs.com
    ...or use your web browser with
    http://bbs.stormbbs.com ************************************************************************

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Adept on Wed Apr 1 13:22:53 2026
    On 31 Mar 2026 at 08:50a, Adept pondered and said...


    really love these, interested to learn how you have automated this.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Avon on Wed Apr 1 06:05:30 2026
    really love these, interested to learn how you have automated this.

    Thanks!

    And pretty simple; it's a python script that combines a couple of ANSI files (the chosen ANSI for the day, plus a tagline-ish file), and also something that takes the filename of the daily ANSI and extracts what to put in the title, then updates the line of the .ini file that mutil uses, to change the subject.

    I _mostly_ reused code from my ANSI calendar, on selecting the files, and I've been having to re-save all my ANSIs using the Mystic editor so they don't have a line clear and are 79-column files. And I've been adjusting names for the subject.

    So lots of manual bits, though theoretically I only have to do those once.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)