TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49
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On 04 Sep 2025, Nick Boel said the following...

Hello Nick,

 NB> I imagine you may be referring to me here, since I was the only other
 NB> person to reply to you so far and you haven't written back.

Actually, no, while I didn't reply to your message, it wasn't one of them I'm
referring to.  I've received a few, far less agreeable netmails.  Sorry for
any implication, It was an oversight on my part.

 NB> well as pointing out that every feature you don't like can be disabled.
 NB> You are not forced to use any of them.

This is one of the reasons I like Mystic.  I have disabled services like
telnet to be replaced by more familiar Linux (UNIX?) telnetd and telnetd-ssl. 
I've gone back and forth with the internal binkp and tosser/packer -- my
uplink runs Argus and sometimes Mystic's binkp and Argus' just don't play
well;  nothing critical, and surely needs refining, somewhere, I haven't
mentioned it as I can't really pin down the issue.  I don't have any Windows
systems to install Argus on, or the spare time to really debug this very
minor, happens once in a blue moon issue.  I just kill the mis process and let
systemd restart it; and all is well.

 NB> I'd love to see a python clone of Mystic, though!

The source is very much a mess, it is only the basic BBS with internode chat
and message reading implemented, no mailer, tosser, or listeners for Telnet or
SSH (I let systemd do all that heaving lifting), it only works on Linux
(Python reasons). And, I've archived and deleted my dev and test containers in
favor of the web bbs implementation.  I probably should have taken some screen
capture video of it in action.  I was particularly pleased with the template
support for the full screen message index reader to support various terminal
sizes - namely 132x36 - something that is still a WIP in Mystic.  And I guess,
calling it a 'clone' is a stretch - it certainly looks that way to a user, 
but for the sysop, all the configurations and menus are text files;  yaml
formatted, specifically.  If you want I can post an example of, say, my main
menu that looks exactly like my Mystic's BBS main menu.  (I do it now, but
SyncTerm, at least on macOS, doesn't support cut/paste to and from the
terminal.)

And, thanks Nick, for the interest in the Python bits.


Cheers
Scott

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