usenet@TSfR.UUCP (usenet) (04/27/89)
In article <453@iisat.UUCP> paulg@iisat.UUCP (Paul Gauthier) writes: > > I noticed a bit of discussion happening about news software for >IBMs. I run a BBS using the Citadel-86 BBS system on my IBM. When I >first started the system my ultimate goal was to open a gateway into >Usenet so my system could pick up the Usenet news feeds and I could offer >the users the use of Usenet mail. And, even though citadel politics forbid Paul mentioning it, there are other Usenet gateways available for citadel-style BBSes on the IBM PC. There is a remote-host version that was written for one of the Amiga variants of citadel that is capable of calling into a citadel (presumably any flavor of citadel that adheres to the pre-1988 Twin Cities `standard' citadel interface) and, also, STadel (my version of citadel) has had a working (both directions) UUCP gateway for the past two years. > [description of Paul G's gateway deleted] The STadel gateway started out as a program that pulls messages out of the STadel messagebase, converts them into rfc822 form, and then calls a uucp host and delivers them. It has since expanded to a collectnews/ rnews/uucico setup, because of G-protocol problems. Collectnews pulls citadel messages out of the messagebase and dumps them to stdout as a batched stream of rfc822 messages, rnews takes a collection of articles from stdin (that should be in batched rfc822 format) and converts them into citadel format (actually STadel format - vanilla Citadel-86 does not directly support Subject: fields and long To: and From: fields) The Stadel rnews/collectnews could, then, also be used with UUPC or any other way you have of flinging news to a Usenet host. (No, I'm not gonna list the full description of how it works - I've got docfiles for that with the code...) >... The latest version of Citadel is rumored to have the ability to >pass mail indirectly through the Citnet to other Citadels... The latest version of Citadel-86, that is. Stadel has had an intellegent mailer for the last year and a half, and the :k2ne version of Citadel-86 has had a form of mail forwarding since the beginning of last year. Unfortunately, they are not compatable, but at least the STadel mailer handles Uucp bang addresses and Internet domain addresses. (Does this sound a bit testy? Yes, it is. Politics run rampant in the citadel community, with each specific version of citadel thinking that their implementation is the best and with large flame-fests between the implementors and supporters of each camp. And the joy of this is that nobody from one camp (Sorry, Paul...) will say anything about what the other camps are doing.) -david parsons -orc@pell.uucp