Hi Sean!

20 Jan 09 18:26, you wrote to Gaylen Hintz:

 GH>>  Hmmm, am I understanding you correctly that he offers DoveNet
 GH>> via FTN feed?  If so, I would be interested in that. :)

 SD> I thought gating DOVE-Net was discouraged by Rob (Swindell)?  Rob,
 SD> what's your take on that?

From http://www.synchro.net/docs/dove-net.txt :

Q. What is DOVE-Net?
A. DOVE-Net is a message network connecting numerous BBSes and the users on
   those BBSes together _through QWK and Fido networking technologies_.
   DOVE-Net consists of primarily Synchronet {tm} BBSes. This is due to the
  fact that the co-founders of DOVE-Net are also the developers of
Synchronet   BBS software. DOVE-Net is not limited to one specific BBS
package and   *welcomes any QWK or Fido network compatible BBS to join* as
long as their   software of choice does not interfere with the operation of
the network in   any way.

From the same document:

You *must not* gate DOVE-Net conferences to any other network without
explicit, prior permission.


Now, there's no reference to FTN networking (apart from that first
question) in that document. Particularly, no zone number that could be used
to identify DOVE-Net nodes in a FTN network. So I assume that, if using an
FTN transport, a fake network must be created between a DOVE-Net node and
it's boss, using a zone number that hopefully doesn't collide with other
networks (I'm thinking about 4D addresses here).

That being said, in my opinion there's no gating involved ('gating' being
the tossing of messages between networks), so as long as they (or
preferably, everyone) can come with an unused zone number for DOVE-Net,
should be as easy as pie.


Regards,
Sergi

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