Subj : Re: NNTP question
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : MRO
Date : Mon Apr 11 2022 22:43:30

  Re: Re: NNTP question
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Mon Apr 11 2022 06:45 am


 > -=> Dumas Walker wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-
 >
 >  DW> OK, I think that is what I am looking for.  That would give them access
 >  DW> to any network that is QWK networkable, which would prevent them from
 >  DW> bothering any NIMBYs in FIDO echos that might take offense.  :)
 >
 > A couple of years back, a sysop declined my application to their network,
 > but they had open NNTP. I initially kept up with the network via a news
 > client, but ended up polling his news server with Synchronet and tossing
 > messages into one of my user bases.
 >
 > I kept the ACL at LEVEL 90 so I'd be the only one to read them, but it's
 > good to know there's a more comprehensive method.
 >

you mean you imported his msgs via nntp to your MSG BASES?

if you changed the access and  if anybody posted they'd be using your name so you didnt accomplish much.  he didnt lock you out of his msg bases, either.
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