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   Message 31,629 of 33,243   
   Digital Man to xbit   
   syncs bbs list   
   03 Apr 25 10:22:21   
   
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     Re: syncs bbs list   
     By: Digital Man to xbit on Thu Apr 03 2025 10:12 am   
      
    >   Re: syncs bbs list   
    >   By: xbit to Digital Man on Thu Apr 03 2025 03:31 am   
    >   
    >  >   Re: syncs bbs list   
    >  >   By: Digital Man to xbit on Wed Apr 02 2025 10:18 pm   
    >  >   
    >  >  DM> I see "The X-BIT BBS" listed at https://synchro.net/sbbslist.html   
    >  >  DM> So again... went away from where?   
    >   
    >  > Went away from your bbslist.   
    >   
    >  > Tried 3 different browsers, two different OSs, also in private mode.   
    >   
    >  > https://x-bit.org/info/downloads/x-bit.mp4   
    >   
    > The entry was listed at http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html yesterday, I   
    > checked: there were 2 entries: "The X-BIT BBS" and "unix-bit". Today,   
    > there's just "unix-bit". I look at the backups of the sbbslist.json, and I   
    > see the "The X-BIT BBS" was created on April-1st:   
    >   
    >         "imported": true,   
    >         "entry": {   
    >             "created": {   
    >                 "on": "2025-04-01T16:27:26.463Z",   
    >                 "by": "xbit",   
    >                 "at": "XBITBBS"   
    >             },   
    >             "updated": {   
    >                 "on": "2025-04-01T16:27:26.463Z",   
    >                 "by": "xbit",   
    >                 "at": "XBITBBS"   
    >             }   
    >         }   
    >   
    > Which correlates with this event log entry:   
    > 2025-04-01 09:27:26  SMB2SBL xbit@XBITBBS creating new entry: The X-BIT BBS   
    >   
    > And then it was removed because the BBS name appeared to be a duplicate:   
    > 2025-04-02 00:00:05  SBLMAINT unix-bit                  : Duplicated name   
    >   
    > ... so one of the entries (apparently "The X-BIT BBS") was removed.   
    > "The " and " BBS" are removed from the BBS name before comaprison and so   
    > "X-BIT" was compared against "UNIX-BIT" and considered too similar and thus   
    > removed. I can fix that.   
      
   Looking closer at the code, it's actually the sevice address ("x-bit.org") not   
   the name that's detected as a duplicate in the database and thus being   
   de-duplicated. I was not expecting 2 completely different Synchronet BBSes to   
   be using the same address. Can you consider creating/using a subdomain (e.g.   
   unix.x-bit.org) instead? As an advantage, you could then use standard TCP   
   ports.   
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