BL>>   The way to stuff them properly is the go around then as if they
BL>> aren't there. That's what I thought Paul intended... gate AVT onto
BL>> the Internet as a newsgroup and then pick it up from the Internet all
BL>> over the planet, gating it back into Fido as required.

JG>> That's possible but you'll pick up more fuckwits than we ever
JG>> attracted in fidoland.

KR> which is why a better method would be to simply use the net as transport, 
KR> using file attached mail to do it. each board simply connects to their isp, 
KR> and sends a mail message with the packet attached to each node that it 
KR> supplies, and similarly receive packets from them in exactly the same way. 
KR> it would be cheap and private, and the old fido message programs could still 
KR> be used, just replacing the actual communications program.

Out of interest, why do you think Fido is the "way forward", when
everyone else is leaving and going to the net, using RFC-822 and the like? 
Even the Fido developers in NET_DEV want to do it.  BFN.  Paul.
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