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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MAURICE KINAL on Thu Jul 31 18:25:44 2025
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    gopher should be also doable and probably desirable. Offhand methinks that would be the way to go.

    I do not currently have gopher available here. synchronet supports it, and
    I have it enabled, but it appears that maybe my ISP is blocking port 70 as
    I am not able to connect from remote.

    Mike


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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Mike Powell on Fri Aug 1 00:10:40 2025
    Hey Mike!

    it appears that maybe my ISP is blocking port 70 as I am not able to
    connect from remote.

    I can confirm that lynx connects to http://capitolcityonline.net but not gopher://capitolcityonline.net. I know "lynx gopher://" works as I have successfully connected to hosts on port 70.

    Дуже груви,
    Maurice

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MAURICE KINAL on Fri Aug 1 07:51:18 2025
    it appears that maybe my ISP is blocking port 70 as I am not able to connect from remote.

    I can confirm that lynx connects to http://capitolcityonline.net but not gopher://capitolcityonline.net. I know "lynx gopher://" works as I have successfully connected to hosts on port 70.

    Tracking this down and seeing if it is maybe something I can fix is on the to-do list. I wasn't aware it wasn't working until it came up here.

    Mike


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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Mike Powell on Fri Aug 1 13:02:36 2025
    Hey Mike!

    I wasn't aware it wasn't working until it came up here.

    That can and does happen every now and then. Also "lynx http://" had issues and I had to use "lynx telnet://" to create an account and then log into it. I was looking to create a msg but didn't see an echoarea corresponding to ASIAN_LINK.

    Дуже груви,
    Maurice

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MAURICE KINAL on Fri Aug 1 08:08:44 2025
    it appears that maybe my ISP is blocking port 70 as I am not able to connect from remote.

    I can confirm that lynx connects to http://capitolcityonline.net but not gopher://capitolcityonline.net. I know "lynx gopher://" works as I have successfully connected to hosts on port 70.

    I figured out why it wasn't working... I had closed the port on my router.

    That said, I also think I figured out why I did so. I was able to lynx to
    it but, as there is apparently no way to log on via the synchronet gopher pages, so you are presented with a rather small selection of message
    groups and file areas, none of which are accessible without a logon.

    So all you get is the main page and links that don't function.

    I closed port 70 back up. ;)

    Mike


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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Mike Powell on Fri Aug 1 14:22:58 2025
    Hey Mike!

    So all you get is the main page and links that don't function.

    I got that with an http connection instead. I didn't get anything with a gopher attempt, just dead air.

    I closed port 70 back up. ;)

    Understood.

    Дуже груви,
    Maurice

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MAURICE KINAL on Sat Aug 2 19:09:38 2025
    That can and does happen every now and then. Also "lynx http://" had issues and I had to use "lynx telnet://" to create an account and then log into it. was looking to create a msg but didn't see an echoarea corresponding to ASIAN_LINK.

    Although I cannot guarantee any better results, if I were going to use lynx
    to connect to the board via http, I would point it to classic.capitolcityonline.net, which will serve up the more simple (older) synchronet interface.

    Mike


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