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Craig Dooley  wrote:

>Interesting, because I'm reading it on a Fidonet echo.  So it sounds like
>someone is gating a usenet group to Fidonet and back.  Not sure why,

It's a valid/useful thing to do. People also gateway the USENET groups into
online web forums (fora?) where people don't realise that they are
participating in a USENET group (which leads to questions about 'postings
in this forum' and 'why isn't the moderator deleting this post!" etc.)

And sometimes to and from e-mail style mailing lists.

>since
>politics and Raspberry Pi computers don't necessarily go together.

Naturally, they don't belong together here (here as in "comp.sys.raspberry-pi")
either.

But crossposting from off-topic groups is a thing, sadly. As is off-topic
discussion within the group.

In your posts, you refer to other posters as (I assume) the FIDOnet entities

BY: Mike(3:770/3) and BY: TimS(3:770/3) -- I suspect whoever at 3:770/3 is
running the gateway, and is translating email addresses over here into
FIDOnet address there, and v.v. -- it's a while since I've used FIDOnet :)

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