On (22 Jan 04) Gordon Lewicky wrote to George Pope...
 GL>  GP> * RIMEGate(tm)v10.2{B} * relayNet(tm) NNTP gateway * MoonDog BBS
 GL>  GP> * RgateImp.MoonDog.BBS at 1/5/04 10:44:17 AM
 GL>  GP>  ! Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230
 GL>  GP> {at}PATH: 278/230 10/345 106/1 2000 140/1 153/307

 GL> The 2 lines above the origi line shows clearly that MoonDog BBS
 GL> 1:278/230,
 GL> is gating to the internet via a NNTP gateway.

Only because the sysop has configured it to state such text content,or
is that always going to be included in the case of a NNTP gateway, by
system defaults?

 GL> The Path line is just the path of bbs's that the msg took to get
 GL> from MoonDog to you. The zone nums are dropped, in this case they
 GL> are all zone 1, and where the next bbs is in the same net, the net
 GL> is dropped. So in full node addy's the path looks like
 GL>
 GL> 1:228/230 -> 1:10/345 -> 1:106/1 -> 1:106/2000 -> 1:140/1 ->
 GL> 1:153/307 -> you

Okay, thank you!  This is info I certainly need to have! :)

 GL> If you don't want an echo gated make sure you state no gating in
 GL> your echo list, and in it's rules and in it's rule file, and then
 GL> simple send a netmail to the gating bbs's sysop and request them
 GL> to stop gating it.

It IS in the rules file, posted in the echo each month. . .

How do I identify the BBS's sysop (at 1:228/230, if I understood you
correctly above?) or would I simply address the netmail to "SYSOP"? (or
would some syso9ps have that alias turned off? (I've seen it where
writing to "SYSOP" in local mail results in "no such user"))

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