Chopping Block

Synchronet BBS, being a 30 year old project, has acquired a lot of features that are likely not used by anyone (Synchronet sysops or their users) any longer. These features add code (where bugs, including security vulnerabilities, may hide) and often just noise/clutter to the sysop/user experience.

If you or your users depend on any of the following Synchronet BBS features, please reach out to the development team and make that known or risk losing these features at some point in the future:

• data/logon.lst file - this was “replaced” by data/logons.jsonl back in 2019 (SBBS release v3.18) but is still written/maintained for backward compatibility
• Troublesome/under-supported Ctrl-A codes: D and T (date and time), '“' (display a file), ^A-^Z (hiding output for non-flag owners)
• Auto-login by IP address (terminal server)
• IDENT queries upon connect (terminal server, services)
• Attach/FrontDoor-style FidoNet mailer support (SBBSecho)
• Terminal server cold-key (opposite of hot-key) user setting
• Windows XP support

Features that Synchronet BBS used to include but were removed due to nonuse:

• SCFG SUBS.TXT and DIRS.TXT import/export file formats (to be replace by *subs.ini and *dirs.ini file import/export support in SCFG 3.22)
• Option to support receipt of SMTP (Internet) email addressed to user numbers rather than names or aliases
• Web server access.ars control file (replaced with webctrl.ini ages ago)
• Pre-packing of QWK packets
• PostLink/UTI driver (RIME/RelayNet support)
• 900/976 phone number support for credit purchases
• WIP terminal support
• HTML terminal support
• JavaScript-generated (e.g. HTML) FTP directory indexes
• r0dent-write

• dev index