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 DM> Re: Totally Confused...
 DM> By: Martin Kazmaier to Digital Man on Sat Dec 20 2025 05:53 pm

 DM> >  DM> > I added that and it still does the same thing. I gave up and am
 DM> using
 DM> >  DM> an
 DM> >  DM> > external server.  This was quite unpleasant.  I followed the
 DM> >  DM> instructions
 DM> >  DM> > to the letter and it didn't work as stated.

 DM> >  DM> I agree: you've been quite unpleasant to deal with. Good riddance.
 DM> --
 DM> >  DM> digital man (rob)

 DM> > Have you never dealt with a neuro-divergent individual?

 DM> Of course I have.

 DM> > We can be difficult, but we totally mean well. Our brains don't work
 DM> > like normal people's, we don't think coherently or cohesively,
 DM> > but we can be highly intelligent. That's the only way we remain
 DM> > semi-lucid.  I didn't mean to cause you difficulty, I just don't
 DM> > deal well when things don't work the way they
 DM> are
 DM> > supposed to.  In my case, it's the new user procedure that needs to be
 DM> > disabled.  Every time I connect, it's as a new user and the real name
 DM> isn't
 DM> > accepted as the same as the handle (sbbs simply reports that it's
 DM> either a
 DM> > dupe or invalid) as I think it's only 1 word.

 DM> And I told you how to disable that real name prompt.

Ok, I just went through every message from you to me and didn't see that.
Could you please tell me again?

 DM> If you connect a second time with the same name, that wouldn't be another
 DM> new user either, so "every time" sounds incorrect as well.

It is forcing me to create a new user each time I connect because the real
name is invalid or duplicate.  It doesn't say which.  I have multiple users
with the same handle and different real names...  That on it's own is
confusing.

 DM> > I'd love to be able to get this to work, but until then I'll be
 DM> > semi-satisfied with using the anet online game server for individual
 DM> > games.

 DM> Cool. I've never heard of it. Looks like it's running Synchronet:
 DM> a-net-online.lol -- digital man (rob)


Yep, he's got it working so I can use that until I can manage this.  I would
love to work with you on this and will try to calm down my idiosynchracies
(sorry I couldn't remember how to spell that) so that I'm easier to deal
with.  He spent about 2 years to get his to the state that it's at.  Rob
McGee (x-bit) also has a game server.  His just asks for username and
location as well as mouse reporting and ansi on new user connection.  I was
hoping to get to that state.  Exodus also has one set up so that people can
access sbbs games from his Renegade. If that many people can use it, it
shouldn't be as difficult as I've experienced. Perhaps they all used a newer
version.  I just went to the synchronet website, which seemed the logical
place to get the latest version.  I did read the game server wiki (thanks to
Stringray for pointing me to that) and follow it's instructions before I had
my melt-down.

--
Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp,
,wss) (Ports 22,23,110,21,119,999)


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