-=> Quoting Khaboh Ohmsford to All <=-

 KO> Could someone perhaps give me some first-hand information on what does
 KO> and does not work trying to add Udenet newsgroups to a BBS using
 KO> Fidonet-typ software these days? I can pull groups down with Vsoup and
 KO> I know there's a way to convert soup to fido PKT and toss it like
 KO> normal, but then there's an issue with long internet name support, so I
 KO> don't think it would work in reverse. I've seen lots of current BBSs
 KO> carrying newsgroups in a way that it looks like the "got"
them from a
 KO> fido feed, so I guess others are doing it in a similar way, but none of
 KO> them are TG BBSs limited to the Jam or Squish format.  I would also
 KO> really like to try "soup2sq" soup-to-squish converter, as my
 KO> understanding is that squish is a more flexible format, but I'm running
 KO> XP, and that's an OS/2 executable that I can't find a way to run in a
 KO> Win32 environment.

        We talked about this sugject awhile back and I went into details
        in previous posts here you could wade through those conversations.
        But basically its possible to get NGs into TG pretty easy once
        you do the above convert it to pkt format that's half the job.
        I've not done NGs in years on the bbs as they got a bit too
        boring and spam filled.  But basically you just toss them
        using a mail tosser like Gecho, Squish, Fmail, Fastecho or
        something else to toss to the bbs like a normal echomail area.
        TG can then access them as normal.  You can set the TG Internet
        msg format so it shows TO ALL in that name regard.

        I don't know the software you mention but do know squish
        and Jam.  I prefer Jam myself as its a bit more tight
        and efficient but I did run squish a decade or so ago.

 KO> (I can find plenty of ways to run Win32 stuff on OS/2 though, go
 KO> figure). 
 KO> I figured this would be a safe place to ask without getting the
 KO> response "Oh, just switch to Synchronet"...

        Well you mentioned the magical word "telegard" and that's
        fine by that annoying moderator I...err..I mean he is
        very bratty sometimes.

        I used to the above with a fido gateway using UUCP.  I
        would download it into a format that was converted at
        the UUCPs side and then downloaded in pkt format.  I then
        toss it into echomail.

        But unfournately not heard of the sq2sq thing above.
        But if it converts to squish then your 90% there.








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