Hi DM,

This morning I updated my Synchronet binaries with this morning's build. I've been testing voting with my message reader, and with this morning, I noticed I can no longer vote. I noticed the vote option in the sub-boards defaults to No now, so I set it to Yes for one of my sub-boards, but it still says voting is not allowed in that sub-board. I am checking whether voting is allowed as follows:
if ((msg_area.sub[subBoardCode].settings & SUB_NOVOTING) == SUB_NOVOTING)

Nightfox

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Re: Unable to vote with new Synchronet update
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Nov 29 2016 09:45 am

Hi DM,

This morning I updated my Synchronet binaries with this morning's build. I've been testing voting with my message reader, and with this morning, I noticed I can no longer vote. I noticed the vote option in the sub-boards defaults to No now, so I set it to Yes for one of my sub-boards, but it still says voting is not allowed in that sub-board. I am checking whether voting is allowed as follows:
if ((msg_area.sub[subBoardCode].settings & SUB_NOVOTING) == SUB_NOVOTING)

Make sure FidoNet-netowrking is turned off for that sub-board.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #93:
Synchronet v3.16c was released in August of 2015 (5 years after v3.15b).
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Re: Unable to vote with new Synchronet update
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Nov 29 2016 11:54:27

This morning I updated my Synchronet binaries with this morning's
build. I've been testing voting with my message reader, and with this
morning, I noticed I can no longer vote. I noticed the vote option in
the sub-boards defaults to No now, so I set it to Yes for one of my
sub-boards, but it still says voting is not allowed in that sub-board.

Make sure FidoNet-netowrking is turned off for that sub-board.

I checked, and FidoNet was turned off. However, I noticed that "Internet (UUCP/NNTP)" was enabled, and with that option enabled, I was unable to enable the voting option. If I turn the Internet option off, I'm able to turn on the voting option and I can vote again. I noticed for DOVE-Net, the Internet option was off and voting option is enabled.

The "Internet (UUCP/NNTP)" option was in my local sub-boards, and I don't remember specifically enabling that optoion. Even though that option is turned off for DOVE-Net, I'm able to read DOVE-Net messages on my BBS with a news reader.. So I'm wondering what exactly that option does?

Nightfox

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Re: Unable to vote with new Synchronet update
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Nov 29 2016 07:06 pm

Re: Unable to vote with new Synchronet update
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Nov 29 2016 11:54:27

This morning I updated my Synchronet binaries with this morning's
build. I've been testing voting with my message reader, and with this
morning, I noticed I can no longer vote. I noticed the vote option in
the sub-boards defaults to No now, so I set it to Yes for one of my
sub-boards, but it still says voting is not allowed in that sub-board.

Make sure FidoNet-netowrking is turned off for that sub-board.

I checked, and FidoNet was turned off. However, I noticed that "Internet (UUCP/NNTP)" was enabled, and with that option enabled, I was unable to enable the voting option. If I turn the Internet option off, I'm able to turn on the voting option and I can vote again. I noticed for DOVE-Net, the Internet option was off and voting option is enabled.

http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/sbbs3/scfglib1.c?r1=1.71&r2=1.72 As of this commit, the "Voting" option is automatically turned off for sub-boards that are networked to FidoNet/FTN or Internet/NNTP and *not* gated to QWK. This was mainly to speed up the new scan-polls feature (e.g. 'V' from the main menu) as there's no purpose is scanning all of FidoNet for polls that will never be there (for example). And there's no point in posting a poll to FidoNet (or USENET) where no one can vote.

The "Internet (UUCP/NNTP)" option was in my local sub-boards, and I don't remember specifically enabling that optoion. Even though that option is turned off for DOVE-Net, I'm able to read DOVE-Net messages on my BBS with a news reader.. So I'm wondering what exactly that option does?

Mainly, it lets the BBS know that you are (or plan to) network that/those sub-boards wither other systems via NNTP. And then the BBS can impose the N-restriction, for example, correctly, set the correct QWKE/TOREADER.EXT AREA flags, allow non-local To-users for locally posted messagese, etc.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #95:
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