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Gess Shankar <gess@knex.via.mind.ORG> writes:

> What is Bufu?
> 
> Exercise for the reader, the doc says. Exercise in futility, I say.
> I am clueless after the said exercise.

I take it you're referring to the following lines from USER.DOC:

  Cookies may not contain '|' characters. They are also not
  permitted to contain Bufu. The exact definition of Bufu is
  left as an exercise to the reader.

Unnecessarily obscure, I agree.  But remember that Waffle is at least
theoretically a BBS program, and that you're the sysop (or SYSTEM
0PERAT0R, as Tom Dell likes to put it).  USER.DOC is the manual for the
users, the people who dial up and attempt to use your BBS.  Since you're
in charge, it's up to you to decide what cookie submissions may or may
not contain.  Therefore, "bufu" can be loosely translated as "that which
the SYSTEM 0PERAT0R does not allow".

If, like me, you're running Waffle as a single-user mail-and-news
program, you can include anything you smegging well want to in your
cookies (except for |, of course).  If you do run it as a BBS, you will
probably want to modify USER.DOC before you give it to users, and spell
out exactly what you don't allow in cookie submissions: puns, lyrics
from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, campaign slogans for Pat Robertson,
or whatever ticks you off the most.  :-)

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