Hello Jeff,

 BL> Watergate looks like a real mongrel to set up (but I like their
 BL> documentation). 

 JG> It can be unless you've had experience with this stuff before.
 JG> I'm fortunate I suppose as I've been screwing around with the
 JG> Internet for a long while, with uucp for at least two years.

  I'll wait two years, then... and in the meantime I'll roll my own.

 BL> What do you recommend as the reader?

 JG> I used to like tin. I also liked trn. These are news readers. I
 JG> used elm as my mail reader for a while. Yes! That's right, two
 JG> seperate programs. 

  ROFL!! And Paul says Fido is fucked....

 JG> In the end I setup Watergate, gated all the uucp news/mail to
 JG> squish message bases and used my fido message reader to read
 JG> both Internet and Fidonet stuff :-) A bit of work for a lot of
 JG> laziness. Now that's my kind of thinking. 

  Yair... it's mad. I'd come to the same conclusion. Nothing in the
Net works, so gate to Fido. No thanks!

 BL> I can go two ways... write my own reader/gateway,

 JG> Possible. Painful I would think.

  I've decided to give Fido the flick. I'll continue to use BlueWave
and Tinypoint for Fido mail, and write a TinyNet in Delphi to replace
that, rather than gating one to the other.

 BL> or set up a mini-bbs. 

 JG> Aren't they all setup for some form of fido message base? You'd
 JG> still need to gate the message if you receive stuff off Paul. 

  That's what I meant by a mini-bbs: Watergate, Binkley, Squish, and
MsgEd (or TinyPoint and Bwave). It's too much trouble, and leads
nowhere. This way, I might write something I can sell.

Regards,
Bob



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