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Malakai
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Worldlink Forums Setup

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As stated previously, I got worldlink itself setup and have figured out how to add the echo mail to the forums, but it doesn't appear to be working. I had temp given up setting up nntp stuff, because you need a news server like dnews supposedly, but the worldlink forums are suppose to work without that right?

Basically, if I write a message in the forums, I don't see any proof of it leaving the bbs. All I can see from the audi trail is "WL GET-MESSAGE START - Starting download of messages from hub" "WL GET-MESSAGE DONE - Byes: 0, Msgs: 0 (0e/0f), Files: 0"

The board doesn't appear to be receiving or sending out any thing. Do I need to contact worldgroupware and sign up to the forums in order to receive and send messages, or am i missing some configuration options or what.

The forums i'm trying to receive are:
user.emulation
user.rose
user.xbox
user.ufo
user.sports.football
user.pets.dogs
user.pets.cats
user.poetry
user.programming
user.bbs.ads

When I go to the /wl-forum-manager page, all of those newsgroups have a blue and a green diamond to the left of each group.

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Post by Questman »

I'm not 100% sure but I don't think worldgroupware.com has worldlink setup properly.. Randy at High Society mentioned problems with it.

When I get some time - and I don't have much at the moment - I will try to setup a Worldlink server as an alternative.

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Post by The Storm »

Questman wrote:I'm not 100% sure but I don't think worldgroupware.com has worldlink setup properly.. Randy at High Society mentioned problems with it.

When I get some time - and I don't have much at the moment - I will try to setup a Worldlink server as an alternative.
How is this going?

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Malakai wrote:As stated previously, I got worldlink itself setup and have figured out how to add the echo mail to the forums, but it doesn't appear to be working. I had temp given up setting up nntp stuff, because you need a news server like dnews supposedly, but the worldlink forums are suppose to work without that right?

Basically, if I write a message in the forums, I don't see any proof of it leaving the bbs. All I can see from the audi trail is "WL GET-MESSAGE START - Starting download of messages from hub" "WL GET-MESSAGE DONE - Byes: 0, Msgs: 0 (0e/0f), Files: 0"

The board doesn't appear to be receiving or sending out any thing. Do I need to contact worldgroupware and sign up to the forums in order to receive and send messages, or am i missing some configuration options or what.

The forums i'm trying to receive are:
user.emulation
user.rose
user.xbox
user.ufo
user.sports.football
user.pets.dogs
user.pets.cats
user.poetry
user.programming
user.bbs.ads

When I go to the /wl-forum-manager page, all of those newsgroups have a blue and a green diamond to the left of each group.

Thanks
I've experienced the same thing, you ever get it figured out?

Toyduck

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Post by Questman »

The Storm wrote:
Questman wrote:I'm not 100% sure but I don't think worldgroupware.com has worldlink setup properly.. Randy at High Society mentioned problems with it.

When I get some time - and I don't have much at the moment - I will try to setup a Worldlink server as an alternative.
How is this going?
It's on hold while Randy finishes a business transaction relating to his company that takes priority. After that, we'll have several servers at our disposal to properly architect this.

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Post by noonien »

If it helps any, I'd be willing to bring one of our linux boxes online if you're in need of a server. If it's something that can be accessed via ftp/http, I've got a box in atlanta on dual OC3's. Otherwise, I can bring a dos/winnt/2003 box online tho it's on commercial cable (7mb down/1.5mb up).

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Re: Worldlink Forums Setup

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No, I never got it to work, unfortunately, and have finally taken out my last worldlink forum from the board.
Toyduck wrote: I've experienced the same thing, you ever get it figured out?
Toyduck

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Malakai wrote:No, I never got it to work, unfortunately, and have finally taken out my last worldlink forum from the board.
Toyduck wrote: I've experienced the same thing, you ever get it figured out?
Toyduck
I received an answer from Don Barr at Worldgroupware, it seems that no one is using the message bases. I went over my connection paramaters as Barr suggested, to make sure, and it does seem like I'm connecting, I was even showing a connection/transfer rate...but visits to a few of the boards showed inactive forums. All the users I found were in the games. Anyway, I sent a couple of test messgages again, and will see.

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Malakai wrote:No, I never got it to work, unfortunately, and have finally taken out my last worldlink forum from the board.
Toyduck wrote: I've experienced the same thing, you ever get it figured out?
Toyduck
Well, I logged on to the boards connecting to WG, and checked with Worldgroupware, it seems that no one is echoing any forums, everwhere I went there was no usage in the message bases..except HS, but I couldn't tell if any of those were being echoed.

Seems everyone is playing MUD..

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Post by Malakai »

I had joined several of their forums, but when I tried to message in a few, I believe I kept getting an error message every time it tried to send. I eventually had to manually go in to one of the worldgroup folders and manually take out the emails that were not getting sent.

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Post by frcorey »

yeah, I used maillink thru jungle bbs.
I used to chat 1 message a month with some other bored
sysops and that was it.

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