Subj : Re: FidoNet News Gate
To : All
From : nelgin
Date : Fri Feb 16 2024 12:07 am
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:05:21 +0000
"MarcL" (VERT) <
[email protected]> wrote:
> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
>
> "Digital Man" <
[email protected]> wrote in
> news:
[email protected]:
>
> > To: MarcL
> > Re: Re: FidoNet News Gate
> > By: MarcL to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Feb 14 2024 01:40 am
> >
> > > > The important thing to understand is that the SYNCHRONET echo on
> > > > FidoNet and the alt.bbs.synchronet newsgroup are already gated
> > > > to each other (here on Vertrauen). If you're going to use
> > > > Newsgate to gate alt.bbs.synchronet to FTN, it's important that
> > > > it gets distributed via FTN with an echo-tag *other* than
> > > > SYNCHRONET. I have no objection so long as that's understood.
> > >
> > > It's limited distribution (as far as I know) in Region 19 as
> > > "ALT-BBS-SYNCHRONET". (Note there are no dots as my old Squish
> > > tosser (under OS/2) can't handle echo names with dots in them.
> >
> > Okay, sounds good to me then.
>
> Okay, I'll link it only to BBSes in R19 that aren't running
> Synchronet software... would be 'kinda redundant to link to them. <g>
You know that this group is shared as SYNCHRONET on Fido, so you're
already providing it to your downlinks. Seems like duplicate effort?
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