I was building a new mod and for that to come alive, i need info coming from
BBSes, like address,sysop,email,location, what echomails supports, how many
users it has, how many files etc and even an ASCII version of a flyer/advert for
the BBS.
So, because the data, for some, may be "sensitive" and also the same data,
can be used by other tools/mods, i would like to ask proposals on what data
the package should have, in what format and if it should be encoded or not.
Each BBS that will use this script, will send once per day a message to a
specific message base (perhaps a data or bot base). It will be something like
a "ping" request, that the BBS is alive, connected and has specific features.
Do you find it useful? What kind of data the message should have? encoded or
not? and what encoding algorithm to use? in what type of format the data
should be? one field/record per line? XML? something else?
From a previous mod i made, i used ROT13 for the encoding and the format was,
one record/field per line, something like a DOOR/32 file.
Any suggestions are welcome. :)
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Another Droid BBS # andr01d.zapto.org:9999 (44:100/21)
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