AX25 Node Network BBS future feature list?

[David Rose]

Is there a list of features or ToDo list?

I was talking to a fellow HAM who is also working on setting up a Node Network BBS. He mentioned that he was looking for a way to post messages for someone and they can check back every so often. It would need to be from one user to another and private, so authenticated I suppose. 

I recognize there are many ways to do this, email, aprs etc.. but it seems like a BBS feature. I'm trying to remember how we did that in the original BBS systems. I had one setup in 1983. I think it even forwarded a copy to each node or could be routed. 

I'll keep reading, lots to learn here and it may already be there and I don't know it.

David 

K2LJL

[Craig]

Hi David,

I read the issues, and features are welcome here:  https://github.com/craigerl/digipi/issues

You're describing a Mailbox, often seen on Kaltronics devices.   I think Linpac has a
feature like that, but I didn't implement it on DigiPi because it's a read-only appliance,
I'm sure we could have some sort of option for it - it's a common request.

cool,
-craig
KM6LYW

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[Brian Webster]

It may just be easier to add a BBS program such as BPQ or FBB to the DigiPi software package. Both of those BBS systems are popular and available on Linux. FBB has been integrated with URONode for years.

 

What is probably a much easier path to pursue is for hams to register with a local BBS system they can already connect to. Packet convention for a lot of years (Not APRS convention) was that any call sign/node you see on a node listing with a -4 SSID should be a BBS, much like a -10 SSID is highly likely to be a WinLink gateway.

 

If a person can get to an existing BBS other people can leave message for them that can be retrieved at a later time. Most BBS systems do automatic forwarding of message and bulletin traffic such that it delivers the messages to the BBS that the recipient in registered with. These systems are much more robust that  simple mailbox message system like the old TNC’s used to have. The message forwarding is designed to eliminate the need for both people that want to communicate having to both be able to connect to the same hardware/mailbox/BBS.

 

There are extensive BBS messaging forwarding networks that use RF only to route and forward messages over RF only. This is one of those networks https://www.tprfn.net/what-is-tprfn

 

 

Thank you,

Brian N2KGC

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