Subj : Re: FidoNet News Gate
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : MarcL
Date : Wed Feb 14 2024 01:40 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

"Digital Man" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> > I may re-establish a link in the Newsgate program to
> > alt.bbs.synchronet IFF   I am convinced that there are no more dupes
> > coming in that are getting past the Squish dupe detection that are
> > headed for the Newsgate progam... That is unless you have any
> > objection.
>
> 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.
--
All the best,
Marc
SysOp Sursum Corda! BBS
1:396/45

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