Subj : Re: FidoNet News Gate To : All From : nelgin Date : Fri Feb 16 2024 12:07 am On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:05:21 +0000 "MarcL" (VERT) wrote: > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet > > "Digital Man" wrote in > news:65CC333C.51275.sync@vert.synchro.net: > > > To: MarcL > > 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. > > Okay, I'll link it only to BBSes in R19 that aren't running > Synchronet software... would be 'kinda redundant to link to them. You know that this group is shared as SYNCHRONET on Fido, so you're already providing it to your downlinks. Seems like duplicate effort? -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 --- þ Synchronet þ End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com .