Hello, All.

This message is probably more for the OS/2 sysops...

I'm thinking about using BT to "answer the phone" on my telnet ports. I'm writing a "matrix logon" front-end for my BBS and want to use BT to answer the port for me so the logon door can pick up and then pass the hot connection to Maximus. While I've been tinkering with this, the thought occured to me that my system might be "crashable" via telnet. Does anyone know about this and can
this be done properly?

Later,
Sean

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Hello Sean,

This message is probably more for the OS/2 sysops...

I'm thinking about using BT to "answer the phone" on my telnet ports.
I'm writing a "matrix logon" front-end for my BBS and want to use BT
to answer the port for me so the logon door can pick up and then pass
the hot connection to Maximus. While I've been tinkering with this,
the thought occured to me that my system might be "crashable" via
telnet. Does anyone know about this and can this be done properly?

Bob Jones at Top Hat BBS 1:343/41 has been running like that for quite a few years. He polled me when I was running MBSE just to see if it would work and it
seemed to. I'm sure he'd be glad to help.

ATM, I have BBBS answering telnet on port 23 (and binkd on 24555). I'm not sure
how long that BBBS is going to be there but at the moment it is running 1:153/758 and 618:400/10, feel free to poll if you like and we'll see what happens.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello, Alan.

Saturday May 09 2009 at 09:42, you wrote to me:

Bob Jones at Top Hat BBS 1:343/41 has been running like that for quite
a few years. He polled me when I was running MBSE just to see if it
would work and it seemed to. I'm sure he'd be glad to help.

Okay, I'll have to ask him (unless he's in this echo).

ATM, I have BBBS answering telnet on port 23 (and binkd on 24555).
I'm not sure how long that BBBS is going to be there but at the
moment it is running 1:153/758 and 618:400/10, feel free to poll if
you like and we'll see what happens.. :)

Sure thing. Is your mailer running on port 23 also then I'm assuming?

Later,
Sean

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Hello Sean,

ATM, I have BBBS answering telnet on port 23 (and binkd on 24555).
I'm not sure how long that BBBS is going to be there but at the
moment it is running 1:153/758 and 618:400/10, feel free to poll if
you like and we'll see what happens.. :)

Sure thing. Is your mailer running on port 23 also then I'm assuming?

Yes, it will do mailer or BBS calls on port 23.

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* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada - trmb.ca (1:153/758)

Hello Sean!

Saturday May 09 2009 12:14, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

I'm thinking about using BT to "answer the phone" on my telnet ports.
I'm writing a "matrix logon" front-end for my BBS and want to use BT
to answer the port for me so the logon door can pick up and then pass
the hot connection to Maximus. While I've been tinkering with this,
the thought occured to me that my system might be "crashable" via
telnet. Does anyone know about this and can this be done properly?

BTXE has been answering the "phone" on my Telnet node for a very long time. I did at one point tinker with mailer sessions over telnet, but always ended up sticking with BinkD (much more widely used, and more efficient also!)

As far as a telnet user is concerned, they just have to hit ESC and wait a few seconds for the BBS, just like with the old POTS lines.

Andrew

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