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.

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