Re: Where's the junk coming from?

2018-06-29 Thread Avon
On 06/29/18, Mark Lawrence pondered and said... ML> As the person who started this thread I'll add my thanks for trying to ML> sort things. Nothing last night is a good start :-) Thanks Mark... you're welcome :) Best, Paul -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Why are BBSes? [was Where's the junk coming from?]

2018-06-28 Thread Avon
On 06/28/18, Grant Edwards pondered and said... GE> OK, I've got to ask... GE> Why are there still BBSes? GE> GE> Who even has a modem these days? [OK, I'll admit my 11 year old GE> Thinkpad T500 has a built-in POTS modem, but it's never been used.] Hi Grant. How long do you have? :) Mo

Re: Where's the junk coming from?

2018-06-28 Thread Avon
On 06/28/18, Tim Golden pondered and said... TG> (Wearing my List Moderator hat) TG> TG> Thanks very much for addressing this for us, and to Cameron and others TG> who did the detective work. I admit I assumed at first it was some kind TG> of odd attack perhaps related to a dissatisfied pos

Re: Where's the junk coming from?

2018-06-28 Thread Kerr Avon
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:43:12 +1200, Avon wrote: > Hey Cameron, > > Apologies for this. I have contacted the Fido system connected to the > gateway I run into news.bbs.nz and have asked them to urgently sort / > check what's up. If I don't get any joy from them within t

Re: Where's the junk coming from?

2018-06-27 Thread Avon
On 06/27/18, Cameron Simpson pondered and said... CS> On 25Jun2018 18:37, Mark Lawrence wrote: CS> >More of the flaming things, this time name@1261/38.remove-ij1-this. Any CS> >as I don't understand this stuff? CS> CS> Looks like a FIDONET gateway leaking somehow. I've made an enquiry to

Python BBS (and more)

2017-03-20 Thread Avon
Hi all. Just a FYI that a new Wiki has been started at wiki.bbs.geek.nz which aims to provide helpful information to bulletin board system (BBS) developers and users. It's a work in progress with a growing number of contributors that include tutorials related to coding a BBS using Python and anot