On Fri May 17 12:01:31 2019 nospam.Paul.Hayton{at}f100.n770.z3.binkp.net (Paul
Hayton) wrote:

> Yep I'll quote some FTN kludge lines so you can see what is being passed on
> the FTN side of things. These are usually hidden from view but it shows you
> some of the stuff that comes across.
>
>  Fl> {at}INTL 3:770/1 3:770/3
>  Fl> {at}REPLYADDR flipchip{at}protonmail.com
>  Fl> {at}REPLYTO 3:770/3.0 UUCP
>  Fl> {at}MSGID:  6aaf6cf2
>  Fl> {at}REPLY: 3:770/100.0 ce751875
>  Fl> {at}PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
>  Fl> {at}SEEN-BY: 57/0 154/10 220/70 226/100 250/3 267/800 317/2 393/68 712/848
>  Fl> 770/0
>  Fl> {at}SEEN-BY: 770/1 3 10 100 340 772/0 1 210 500
>  Fl> {at}PATH: 770/3 1
>
> So in this case the FTN  News gateway is at 3:770/3 and that
in turn talks
> to news.bbs.nz to send/recieve the news group content etc.
>
>  Fl> One more thing I'd like to ask about the matter. How recourse heavy is
>  Fl> getting user subscribed groups down and so. If I recall correctly fropm
>  Fl> back in the days NNTP servers were quite light weight on other but disks
>  Fl> screamed like maniacs .. but that was in 90's so :)
>
> Well there's still quite a bit of activity in some groups. Some are full of
> spam while other seem to be quite good (like this one :)) so your mileage
> varies. It's not however as mad as it was in the 90s for volumes, especially
> if you just look at text only newsgroups and ignore any binary stuff. In my
> case I only carry text only newsgroups and filter the others out. Then it's
> just down to which newsgroups a BBS wants to carry that dictates the amount
> of FTN style gated packets they want to / will receive per day.

Makes sense. I'll need to sort this thing out when got time to focus. Now
I'm trying another client for the moment.

And yes. My plan is text only. I need no binaries on the BBS, when I get
around to get that up. Not exactly pole position on my priority list :D

But eventually I'll get it done. I have plans you see, but life happened.
Also haven't been active on BBS' lately ... like in several months now.
Should get my act together thoug.


Thanks again Paul!

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