Subj : Re: FidoNet News Gate
To   : MarcL
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Feb 13 2024 19:27:56

  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.
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