Subj : Re: FidoNet News Gate
To : Dumas Walker
From : MRO
Date : Sat Feb 17 2024 08:24 pm
Re: Re: FidoNet News Gate
By: Dumas Walker to Marc Lewis on Sat Feb 17 2024 03:09 pm
> > It may in fact be a duplicate effort in the case of the SYNCHRONET echo,
> > but it is not the only newsgroup that I offer to those that aren't
> > running a system with a built-in newsgroup system. As I mentioned before
> > I'm certainly not trying to step on anyone's (Digitalman) toes by
> > offering it as an echo. I believe, as I said before, that I've eliminated
> > the unfortunate duplicate message posting problem so as NOT annoy others
> > in the actual newsgroup.
>
>
> I have not seen any dupes since the original batch, so I think you did
>
>
> fix
> it.
>
> #
They should just mainstream fidonet and eliminate the dead echos and keep
a handful of the essential ones instead of expanding it or artificially populating it with msgs from other sources.
i remember years ago they were doing this with some active newsgroups that didn't even know they were being gated to fidonet.
