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to: Janis Kracht
from: Dale Shipp
date: 2007-05-19 23:12:00
subject: Re: fido.. newsgroups

-=> On 05-19-07  13:11,  Janis Kracht <=-
 -=> spoke to All about fido.* newsgroups <=-

 JK> Today I received a query regarding the fido.* newsgroups.. 
 JK> does anyone have a complete list?

   Many fidonet echos should *NOT* be listed in that CONFIG file, and a
   brief scan shows that not many of them are.   I know that the echo I
   help moderate (COOKING) should not be gated into usenet news groups.
   So far as I know, it is not.

Dale


 JK> ===cut here======
 JK> iulius{at}via.ecp.fr wrote to janis{at}filegate.net:

 JK> Hi,

 JK> I am currently working on establishing the current list of 
 JK> the FidoNet newsgroups in order to have an accurate list 
 JK> for Usenet news administrators.
 JK> The official Usenet list can be found in
 JK> ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/newsgroups> but I believe
 JK> it is not up to date as for « fido.* ».

 JK> I have found information regarding « fido.ger.* » here:
 JK> ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/doc/news/fido.ger/>.

 JK> But I cannot find useful information for the whole « fido.* 
 JK> » hierarchy.  Could you please help me?  Do you have the 
 JK> current list of FidoNet newsgroups? (for all the zones)

 JK> Thanks a lot.

 JK> Regards,

 JK> -!- Julien ÉLIE « Rien ni personne n'a tout à fait tort : même une
 JK> horloge arrêtée a raison deux fois par jour. » (John Steinbeck)

 JK> ======cut here========

 JK> Take care,
 JK> Janis

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