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  • New (proposed) drop file format, up for disucssion

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to All on Wed Sep 30 00:54:41 2026
    Purposely not implemented (even in Synchronet) yet, as I want to give the community (especial door and host/BBS/server authors) time to review and provide feedback first:
    https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/dropfile_ini.md
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    digital man (rob)

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to Rob Swindell on Wed Sep 30 15:50:34 2026
    Purposely not implemented (even in Synchronet) yet, as I want
    to give the community (especial door and host/BBS/server
    authors) time to review and provide feedback first: https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/dropfile
    _ini.md --

    As long as programmers keep supporting the established formats (for older systems that will unfortunately never be updated for a new one), I think it makes sense and is probably a good idea for the reasons stated on the github page.

    Mike

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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to All on Thu Oct 1 13:45:06 2026
    Re: New (proposed) drop file format, up for disucssion
    By: Rob Swindell to All on Wed Sep 30 2026 12:54 am

    Purposely not implemented (even in Synchronet) yet, as I want to give the community (especial door and host/BBS/server authors) time to review and provide feedback first: https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/dropfile_ini.md

    Proposal (now rev 0.7) moved to: https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/doordrop_ini.md and https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/docs/doordrop_ini.md
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    digital man (rob)

    Steven Wright quote #17:
    Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
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  • From andy5995@1:105/44 to Rob Swindell on Tue Oct 6 09:05:05 2026
    Rob Swindell wrote to All on 09/30/2026 00:54 <=-

    Purposely not implemented (even in Synchronet) yet, as I want to give
    the community (especial door and host/BBS/server authors) time to
    review and provide feedback first: https://github.com/SynchronetBBS/sbbs/blob/master/docs/dropfile_ini.md
    --
    digital man (rob)

    I would like to give good feedback, but as you may know, most of my experience is from vibe-coding my first door game. What I can say is that I like that you're proposing ini, an established format. I also like the encoding and LANG options. Please let me know when the spec is finalized and I'll add support for it to Immortal Barons.

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    -Andy Alt

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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to andy5995 on Tue Oct 6 09:54:18 2026
    Re: Re: New (proposed) drop file format, up for disucssion
    By: andy5995 to Rob Swindell on Tue Oct 06 2026 09:05 am

    I would like to give good feedback, but as you may know, most of my experience is from vibe-coding my first door game. What I can say is that I like that you're proposing ini, an established format. I also like the encoding and LANG options. Please let me know when the spec is finalized and I'll add support
    for it to Immortal Barons.

    Will do.
    --
    digital man (rob)

    Rush quote #34:
    We go out in the world take our chances fate's just the weight of circumstances Norco, CA WX: 92.5øF, 29.0% humidity, 1 mph S wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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