DM>> That's fine - I have a news reader in Netscape News that should
DM>> allow me to retrieve messages. Have you a name yet ?

PE>> What do you mean "have you a name yet"?  My machine is called
PE>> "scorpio", but that's not an official internet name or
anything.  My
PE>> real internet address is avon{at}rosebay.matra.com.au, but in various
PE>> places I have configured my machine to be scorpio.rosebay.matra.com.au.

DM> So if you're a news host, I should be able to point the news
DM> reader to scorpio.rosebay.matra.com.au. I'll try that tomorrow.
DM> I've currently tagged our ISP's news host, news.tpgi.com.au, or
DM> whatever. No mention of locuser or avtech there, as yet.

No, you can't do any of this.  You have to configure yourself to do UUCP.

PE>> Or do you mean a userid?  I haven't created a Udieterm yet, do you
PE>> want to get UUCP from me (didn't you say you were going to move to
PE>> John's system, or are you going to dual-poll?).

DM> Maybe singular poll from you at the moment. I was looking at
DM> moving to John's system, though I do prefer the minimal traffic
DM> at the moment.

The minimal traffic is obtained by simply tagging LOCSYSOP + LOCUSER only.
Or only reading those two.  Anyway, I think the best thing is for you to
move to John's system, at least for the short term, OK?

Is there anyone else (besides Bob), relying on me providing a fidonet feed?
 Brenton?  BFN.  Paul.
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