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   Message 1,771 of 2,445   
   Andrew Leary to Ken Bowley   
   MBNNTP   
   05 May 18 02:40:50   
   
   Hello Ken!   
      
   04 May 18 21:59, you wrote to all:   
      
    KB> A long time ago I started looking at mbnntp and played with using a   
    KB> newsgroup client to access the various echo's on my system, but   
    KB> unfortunately most of my work was lost with a hard drive crash on my   
    KB> development workstation about a year ago.  Now that I'm starting to   
    KB> look at things again, I'm reminded that mbnntp barely supports the   
    KB> basics when it comes to NNTP commands.  It doesn't implement much of   
    KB> RFC 977, only AUTHINFO and XOVER (barely) from RFC 2980, and RFC 3977   
    KB> wasn't even published when it was written.   
      
    KB> My question:  Is anyone doing any work on mbnntp?  If I do get around   
    KB> to actually reading the RFC's and attempting to get them implemented   
    KB> in mbnntp, is anyone willing to look over my code to make sure I don't   
    KB> introduce security issues?   
      
   I haven't looked at mbnntp; been more concentrating on the mailer and fidonet    
   processing stuff.   
      
    KB> I've got a strong history as a SysAdmin (which includes debugging   
    KB> developers code), but my coding is more of a hobby.  It seems that I   
    KB> have to re-teach myself C every time I do work on MBSE.  :-)   
      
   I started learning C to fix issues with MakeNL, and then as I got more    
   comfortable with it I tackled MBSE.  There are still a bunch of things I want    
   to work on with it.  The interBBS chat needs to be overhauled and upgraded to    
   support IPv6, the BBS won't fall back to displaying the ASCII file if the ANSI    
   file doesn't exist, etc.   
      
   There are only so many hours in a day...   
      
   Andrew   
      
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