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to: Albano De Manuel
from: Scott Adams
date: 2003-08-02 02:31:42
subject: Re: Fidonet and Usenet

-=> Quoting Albano De Manuel to Khaboh Ohmsford <=-

 ADM> El S bado 19 Julio 2003 a las 15:21, Khaboh Ohmsford escribi¢ a 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
 KO> I 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
 KO> of 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
 KO> running XP, and that's an OS/2 executable that I can't find a way to
 KO> run in a Win32 environment.

 ADM> You have several options:
 ADM> 1) Try NewsGate for Win if you only want usenet newsgroups

        Forgot about that a good program if you want to skip the
        middlemand.

 ADM> 2) Try any Souper and SoupGate (soup  pkt)
        No experience there.

 ADM> 3) Join SkyNet with all the usenet newsgroup available as FidoNet
 ADM> echomail, contact Michael Grant (1:134/11). 4) ...

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