Only somewhat on topic: am I the only one who's thrown off by version numbering like this? If it's mongrel 2, I expect that the software is at version 2. Just like python 3 is python v 3.x.

Well, not to be too pedantic, but the name is Mongrel2, not Mongrel 2. I agree that it can be a little odd though.

Namingwise, I personally find m2sh somewhat hard to parse, because I read it as "m to sh" and not as "mongrel2 shell".

To try out the BBS interface for yourself:

  curl -o client.py http://dpaste.de/xtDj/raw/
  python client.py mongrel2.org 80

A BBS? Now you're just showing off :)

Download links were busted, I fixed them.