danielw@wyn386.UUCP (Daniel Wynalda) (08/18/89)
I noticed that many of the users now have fido and uucp addresses in their footers. I heard someone was developing such a program and wonder if such has been release to the archives at all? Also, do these programs run on the fido machines to allow them to read uucp news from the unix machine, or do they run on the unix machine to let the fido node be convinced the unix machine is just another node? I ask this question because I run SCO Xenix 286 and would really like to get some of the PC/Amiga/Mac/Atari users who read news off into another Fido board and free up my phone lines for Unix users (they are almost always busy). If I could forward, for example, comp.sys.amiga, to fido echo in the area then I would avoid alot of the traffic and place the users back in an evironment they are used to as well. Daniel Wynalda -- Daniel Wynalda | Telephone: (616) 866-1561 X22 Ham: N8KUD Wynalda Litho Inc. | Network: danielw@wyn386.UUCP ..sharkey!wyn386!danielw 8221 Graphic Ind Pk. | Diskclaimer: If you find a disk with no label, it is Rockford, MI 49341 | the one I lost. I say what I say for me ONLY here.
root@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (08/20/89)
In article <114@wyn386.UUCP>, danielw@wyn386.UUCP (Daniel Wynalda) writes: > I noticed that many of the users now have fido and uucp addresses in > their footers. I heard someone was developing such a program and wonder > if such has been release to the archives at all? There currently is a package call UFGATE that runs under DOS and will handle usenet quite well. UFGATE has its own uucp that calls the Unix host and initiates that transfer then tosses the mail into Fidonet compatible messages which are then scanned into various Fidonet bulletin board packages. If you need to get the mail into and out of Fidonet - that is one way - but I took another approach and just dropped Fidonet and now am running real software doing what it is designed to do.. > I ask this question because I run SCO Xenix 286 and would really like to > get some of the PC/Amiga/Mac/Atari users who read news off into another > Fido board and free up my phone lines for Unix users (they are almost > always busy). You sound like you have an ideal application for UFGATE. Currently on the Fidonet Echomail Backbone there are conferences on the specific topics you mentioned above, but I have found that conferences (groups) on usenet are of a more techincal nature. -- Larry Snyder uucp: iuxax!ndcheg!ndmath!nstar!larry The Northern STAR XBBS/Usenet Site 219-287-9020 (VHST) - 219-289-3745 (PEP+)