#: 14502 S5/OS9 Users Group
    06-Mar-92  03:03:17
Sb: #14443-OS9CN
Fm: John Wight 76370,2100
To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 (X)

Sorry if we gave you that impression, but actually the opposite is the case.
One example is that I came here regularly to exchange information on behalf of
the OS-9 Community Network. We are also brainstorming ways to regularly
exchange information with those on other networks such as Internet, Usenet,
UUCP, Stgnet, Rime, ACBBS network, and there are most likely others. What we
need is volunteers to help us brainstorm how to make these gateways come about.
For example, MS-DOS systems are capable of handing both Fidonet mail and UUCP
mail, as well as other networks. So if we took advantage of those OS-9 fans
that run BBS systems on MS-DOS systems, we could make this exchange of
information automatic. We do have a few volunteers that are sending information
for us to some of the other popular networks. But we do not want The OS-9
Community Network to be based only in Fidonet, as there are members of the OS-9
Community on almost any network. For those of us that use OS-9 on the COCO,
using RiBBS and Fidonet is the most feasible and economical way to go (for most
of us), and Australian OS-9 users have already joined us on Fidonet. If someone
will offer ideas of better ways to do it, or ideas on gatewaying, we are all
ears!