All right, that's good to hear. Especially that you've already got a more complete approach in mind. The news server can be handy on mobile.

It'll be good to have someone to test it! I will take a look at this in A45
I don't want to start it now because its too close to A44.

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On 04 Feb 2020, g00r00 said the following...

All right, that's good to hear. Especially that you've already got a complete approach in mind. The news server can be handy on mobile.

It'll be good to have someone to test it! I will take a look at this in A45 I don't want to start it now because its too close to A44.

I started playing around with thunderbird and the NNTP server but i'm having all kinds of problems. The groups on SciNET subscribe, and then the next
time i come into thunderbird they are orphaned and say the message area
doesn't exist on the server. I wonder if this is because I havea : in the name of the SciNet areas so the groups are named scinet:.Sysops.only and such fsx areas kinda work, but i can't reply to anything i get a message like
'Would you like to subscribe to 8023? if i say ok thunderbird crashes.

I can at least read some of the bases in fsx, but a lot of them i can only
see subject lines but not the messages. I think possibly these ones have / character in the name somewhere.
chat works, cryptographic works,
but fsxnet.BBS.Support/DEV no good.

I'm guessing there are some forbidden characters for newsgroup names?

|07E|10m|07b|10a|07l|10m|07e|10d |12-----------------------------------------------------
|09Black Lodge Research BBS |11blacklodgeresearch.org:4022
|11fsx|08Net: |0721:4/166 |11sci|08Net: |0777:1/133

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message area doesn't exist on the server. I wonder if this is because I havea : in the name of the SciNet areas so the groups are named scinet:.Sysops.only and such fsx areas kinda work, but i can't reply to anything i get a message like 'Would you like to subscribe to 8023? if
i say ok thunderbird crashes.

Yes. Your newgroups names in mystic must not contain spaces and apart from alphanumeric characters can only contain a '.'.

|15frank |08// |15netsurge
|07disksh0p|08!|07bbs |08% |07bbs.diskshop.ca |08% |07mystic goodness |11SciNet |03ftn hq |08% |07https://scinet-ftn.org

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