jim barchuk wrote in a message to Leonard Erickson:

 jb> Never mind. This is my third try wrestling through this thing and I
 jb> give up. These are the -wackiest- bunch of *.faq, notes, *.cfg,
 jb> *.ml, *.msg, *.bug and *.doc I have ever seen. Plus -ONE- (eactly
 jb> one) reference to 'option.cfg' that ummm.., does not exist. I am

That's because later options.cfg was imported to gateway.cfg.
[shurg]  "include" is nothing magic: you can run everything out
of 1 config, or 100, it doesn't matter to GIGO.  [I personally use
a total of two configs:  users/sites in on, everything else in the other].

 jb> 1000% fully versant on the fido side of things. And since it's all
 jb> in text format I can see everything that Pegasus is doing on the
 jb> mailing list side. But the -interface- is completely
 jb> incomprehensible. Because it can do -anything- it is impossible to
 jb> pick out what's required to do just -one- thing.

Look at WaterGate or ActUp if you need a pretty interface.

 jb> I was amazed when a msg from fido to internet actually 'did
 jb> something'. However what it did was bounce back to fido as
 jb> -netmail- looking like: 

 jb> @INTL 1:141/355 1:141/354
 jb> @MSGID: 1:141/354 00000002
 jb> @REPLYTO 1:141/354 UUCP
 jb> @REPLYADDR jim.barchuk@f355.n141.z1.worldnet.att.net

 jb> -What- is -that-? There is no such user anywhere on the planet. 

Means you misconfigured things.  You did not give yourself 
permission to use your gateway, ie SITE LOCAL 1:141/355

 jb> @GID GIGO unreg at worldnet vsn 0.99.960714
 jb> Apparently-to: jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net

 jb> Yes it certainly was, never got there.

This never got there, because it bounced.  The Apparently-To:
was the destination you were trying to reach.

 jb> -!-
 jb> AVia 1:141/354 19961002.170635.UTC gigo 099.960714-

 jb> Should be ^AVia, not AVia.

No kidding.  That's why the patch was out a day later. 
Wherever you grabbed gigo0714 from, you shoulda gotten
patch714.exe as well..  Or, manually change the A to ^A in the
.EXE file.

 jb> Also, it bombs in a win 3.11 dos box with 570k free, and I soon
 jb> intend to have less than that available. Exception 0E Error code
 jb> 04. The above happened at vanilla dos level.

Make sure you are giving it 2-3 megs of EMS.  By default, 
old multitaskers don't give enough memory to the application.


>  If you *need help, you've got the author's address.
I personally know the guy.  He even answers his mail *while at
his day job*, to try and keep answers coming back fast.  However,
if the interface throws you, it may not be for you, and
WaterGate or ActUp would be worth looking at.

Personally, I say look at *all* of them, until you find one that suits you. 
Many people prefer GIGO after trying a bunch.  Many prefer WaterGate.  Some use
Act-Up.  Some even still use FredGate, which would be ideal on your
environment.

I'm not going to try and 'sell' you onto using GIGO, as I don't
base my entire income on GIGO.  It's a hobby :-).  If you can
use it, cool.  If you don't, that's cool too.

Good luck..

cheers,
 jason