[GoLUG] Mailing list, long term.

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:54:52 +0000
David Billsbrough <kc4zvw at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hello Steve and all,
> 
> What Steve is looking for is a modern version of the original 80/90's
> BBS system without wording it that way.

MindMeld is much simpler.

> 
> Think about it ... as as easy and quick to learn as the first group
> of computer user introduced to desktop computing.

Not with all the ? . and other 1 char commands you need to memorize. If
that were easy, we'd all be using tiling window managers.

Don't get me wrong: In a world of Steve Litt clones I'd choose
something more like BBS, or maybe even use BBS, but computer users of
today are neither as smart nor as patient as those in the 1980's, so
reasonable accommodations must be made.

> 
> So just drop the ASCII art and Text 'door' games.

That's for sure.

> Just make the 'client' easy to install and instead of talking RS-232
> serial but uses TCP/IP and you have .....

Don't they talk Telnet?
 
> https://www.synchro.net/

LOL, that link is clear as mud.

> so in the GO language you port for Mac (UNIX) and Linux and *BSD user
> machines.

Wait. If you mean the client, I'm not writing it in Go, given I have
maybe 12 hours experience with Go. My mamma didn't raise no fool, I'm
doing the client in Python, which I've used off and on since the final
year of the 20th century. The only reason I'm using Go for the server
is Go is kinda built with making servers in mind.

> 
> The server side is just a new improved mail 'tossing' system.

No idea what mail tossing is.

Anyway, my 20 minutes of research about BBSes yielded some interesting
things. Among them, I can get this thing out faster if MindMeld
*temporarily* has no facility for account creation, and people just
email me asking for an account with a specific (non-valuable) password.
A real sign-up system can come soon after.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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