Subj : Re: Newsgroups & Mystic
To   : Matt Ianson
From : Avon
Date : Mon May 20 2024 08:31 am

On 19 May 2024 at 07:57p, Matt Ianson pondered and said...
 
 MI> When setting up message bases in Mystic, there is a referenc eto "base
 MI> type" of newsgroup. 
 MI> 
 MI> Does Mystic have support for newsgroups / connecting into usenet groups
 MI> to receive / send messages? (ie in the same way that Syncro with
 MI> newslink or cnet (built in). 

Mystic does not have direct support to poll a NNTP server and import/export newsgroups from it's message bases.

The 'Newsgroup' base type simply ensures that messages posted to the group come from 'All' which is more to do with convention.

As others have suggested what you can do is find a service that will gate newsgroups <> FTN packets that Mystic (or any other BBS software) can import/export from their message bases.

In the case of fsxNet there's a NNTP server news.bbs.nz that is polled by a gatway at 21:1/10 Usenet + Games HUB... have a read in the infopack for the fsx-use.txt or on fsxnet.nz and look for Usenet info.

Hope this helps :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz 

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