Re: mystic forum door

[email protected] (Nicholas Boel) writes:

> Hello Daniel,
>
> On Sat, Nov 23 2024 00:23:16 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> Most bbs time is spent on the bottomless abyss bbs and, lately, I've
>> been doing rounds on other boards where I have memberships. Some
>> synchronet boards have a 'forum' that, upon examination, are styled like
>> web forums where you go into a topic, select a post, and the original
>> message is listed with all replies threaded below it. This gets my
>> juices going.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to here, unless it's something like 
> this:
>
> https://pharcyde.org/messagelister.png

No. If you ever get a chance to connect to the following bbs's, they
have examples

Another Droid BBS - Ph0rum - andr01d.zapto.org - telnet 9999
Archaic Binary BBS - forum - bbs.archaicbinary.net - ssh 22

I'm sure there are many more.

>
>> From what I hear, mystic doesn't have such a 'forum' door. Is it
>> possible to load such synchronet software on a mystic board? Or would I
>> have to stand up a synchronet board alongside my mystic to enjoy this
>> feature?
>
> Mystic does indeed have that same feature. Take a look at the "message index" 
> reader thing, as I'm not sure it's a default setting or not. The menu item 
> command would be 'MI - Message Index Reader', though.
>
> Hopefully that's something in the realm of what you were asking for, otherwise 
> I just typed out a bunch of junk you didn't need. :)
>
>> This may appear like a straight forward question but I have no
>> experience as a sysop.
>
> Gotta learn somewhere, and you've come to the right place!
>
> Regards,
> Nick
>
> ... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.