PE> 1. Are you receiving UUCP mail that includes messages from me saying 
PE> "Sunday test" etc?

Yes

PE> 2. Are you receiving UUCP mail from other users, especially Jeff Green 
PE> (since he's gating messages from here).

Yes, but they are addressed to 'All'

PE> 3. Have you successfully sent UUCP mail yourself?

I think so, I sent messages to you and Jeff -  they appeared to be sent ok.

PE> If I can establish that MY system is set up correctly (by the above), then 
PE> I can move on to the next issues...

PE> Since I intend to go UUCP holus bolus, I will be shutting down my fidonet 
PE> system (running under the much-maligned OS/2 system), and converting to 
PE> 24-hour UUCP access.

PE> But I don't want to rudely chop anyone off.  So I want to know:

PE> 1. Who needs help to get their UUCP software set up?

PE> 2. Who needs a UUCP account?

PE> 3. Who needs more time (how much) to set up their UUCP account?

PE> One of the options I have would be to run my system as fidonet 8-9pm 
PE> instead of vice-versa.  Depends how many people are in each camp.

PE> But like I said, this is all dependent on confirmation that my own system 
PE> is set up correctly!!!  BFN.  Paul.

PE> P.S. BTW, I'll be setting up a "dial.sysop" newsgroup
soon, which will 
PE> hopefully be spread to the other sysops interested in the new network, to 
PE> discuss where we want to take this.  BTW, under the new structure, EVERYONE 
PE> is actually a sysop, since everyone who doesn't have a phone that answers 
PE> in UUCP is a private node!

PE> P.P.S. I must say that I am very happy at the moment.  Absolutely astounded 
PE> would probably be a better way of describing it.  I was expecting it would 
PE> take another few weeks to find software suitable for MSDOS, plus heaps of 
PE> debugging both ends, but instead it all happened in about 2 days after I 
PE> spent the initial 4 weeks (2 days being the time taken for me to get my 
PE> modem to answer to Alan successfully connecting (although there's still no 
PE> confirmation that he actually liked what he got!)!

Yeah, it looks good so far.  I'm still not 100% confident on my software
but thats mostly cosmetic stuff, I can read and send mail.

Now I want to try your internet newsgroup and work out hoe to transfer files.

Rgds
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