John, did my message to ZONE3_SYSOP saying "I give up" make it
out?  It was sent hours before my excommunication.  Also, did someone (like
Rowan) crosspost my reply to David's excommunication netmail?  Also, could
you do me a favour, and post the following message to ZONE3_SYSOP and
NET_DEV? Thanks + bye.  Paul.


To anyone interested in helping set up and/or join the following network
based on the internet standards, could you please contact Paul Edwards
at avon{at}rosebay.matra.com.au.  I need to get my newsgroups via my normal
dial-up account (ISP requested) instead of UUCP.  I have fetchmail working
to receive mail, and sendmail working except that it is sending messages
out with the wrong address (avon{at}scorpio.rosebay.matra.com.au).  I have
"inn" installed, but when I run "inews" it says it
cannot connect to 
news server rosebay.matra.com.au.  I am running on a Linux box.

When I have all that set up, I then need to provide UUCP to people who dial
me.  Since they mostly use MSDOS/OS2 I need simple setups to allow them to
obtain and read their mail, plus of course I need it set up at my end.

This is my first foray into the internet, and it is as overwhelming as
fidonet was when I set it up, hence this request for technical support.
Anyway, here is the proposed network...

Plan for new network
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To merge the techniques of fidonet, into the mould of the internet technology.

Facts:

1. Individual sysops who wish to exchange mail, almost always use FTN
technology, probably because it's the only thing set up by default to do
exactly the task of consenting nodes exchanging mail.

2. The internet is vastly more popular, and thus the use of the protocols 
more widespread.


Objectives:

1. Consenting nodes should be able to exchange mail with anyone they want,
without any restrictions (outside of that country's laws), without requiring 
approval from anyone.

2. To use the internet technology (RFC-822 etc), in the hope that software
can be reused and relevant, plus it's better defined.

3. No node has any power, except the freedom to not supply mail to another
node.  Any node may choose to create their own "master list of known
nodes",
by whatever mechanism they choose.

4. Nodes are not required to be up at a particular time of the day, or have
a telephone contact (normal telephone or ISDN etc), but may choose to have
such contacts.

5. The ability to get mail directly from the internet (via an ISP), rather
than purely relying on mail from other sysops, so that there will be plenty
of traffic, even with only a few participating sysops.

6. Being purely a matter of consenting nodes exchanging mail, any node may
choose to charge for mail (partly or fully), without restriction.
@EOT:

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