-=> Quoting Frank Malcolm to Paul Edwards <=-

Hello Frank,

 PE> First of all there's a major issue, I won't have ANY fidonet echos as
 PE> fidonet as soon as I get the unix stuff working.  Are you planning on
 PE> collecting comp.locuser.tml from me?

 FM> Er, no. I don't think so. Huh?

 FM> How do I get that? I suppose that means, how do I get internet
 FM> newsgroups. Is that what they're called?

 Once paul is set up, I will probably be setting up gating software here to
get packets from paul.  I don't know if it's going to work though, but if it
does work, all my users/points will access internet mail/newsgroups exactly the
same as fido.  Except the names of the echos will be different.
 
 FM> The question was, if I write/reply to one of your points as
 FM> 3:711/934.xx (because they haven't yet cut over) through John's system,
 FM> do they get the mail? Echomail? Netmail?
 
 The only echomail between here and paul (alive) is locuser & locsysop.  Any
netmail you send to 3:711/934.x can be sent via here.  It *will* get to paul
providing he is still set up for fido, won't be for much longer though.

 PE> You can have this setup for maybe another week or so (this Linux stuff
 PE> is a pain in the arse, last night I spent 4 hours attempting to recompile
 PE> the kernel to include PPP and I still haven't been successful!).  Getting
 PE> those echos from John means there's an extra delay because you're going
 PE> via an extra system.

 FM> Fuck, how do normal people get it to work then!

 With great difficulty! :-)

 FM> Or, don't normal people use Linux?

 It depends on how you define "normal". :-)

 FM> It's a Unix variant, isn't it? I guess not a lot would want to.

 Only thing stopping me is lack of software, but this situation is improving.
 
 PE> Yes, that will cover everything except people posting into AUST_AVTECH etc
 PE> from here, but I think people will stop doing that and start posting in
 PE> LOCUSER instead, e.g. Brenton wrote a message in AUST_AVTECH and I replied
 PE> to it in LOCUSER.

 FM> Hmmm, so locuser/locsysop gets to and from John, but AvTech (and
 FM> others? which?) doesn't?

 AUST_AVTECH mail does come from paul, but is not processed.  Moot point now
as I haven't had any avtech traffic from paul for a while.  It was active
(albeit quiet) for a short while, but dead now.


John Tserkezis, Sydney, Oz. Fidonet: 3:712/610  Internet: jt{at}suburbia.com.au

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