Hello ED!

07 Oct 04 20:37, you wrote to me:

 EK> -> Anyone interested in reading Fidonet via your NNTP newsreader?

 EK> Sounds like a good way to import a virus. I quit importing newsgroups
 EK> for this reason.

Not the setup I am testing..

You have to separate the terms newsgroups from the protocol used in newsgroups..


Fidonet ---->  My Mailhub -----> Test Node..


Test node using binkd to interface with my mailhub to exchange fidomail.

Test node using Crashmail to create a JAM format message base. ( I maintain
a Squish format message base on this node and that of the mailhub /500 )

JamNNTPD is the server that serves up the JAM format fido message base on
the test node, except that it converts the messages depending on the
direction they are heading into the correct format.

There is no interaction with other newsgroups or usenet or the ilk.

Its a faster way for people to do offline mail reading, and its not any
different than your users accessing your QWacK or Silver Xpress doors. The
only real difference is they can use any newsreader. In your case, your
users have to have a QWK reader or the SX readers in addition to an
archiver/unarchiver.

 EK> I got an infected packet from you a couple of weeks ago, Norton popped
 EK> up a warning that it had been deleted :)

If it was a mail packet, then there was probably uuencoded content in a
message in some echo, I cannot control that.

Do remember that the mail hub runs under Linux, its not susceptible to the
crap Windoze is vulnerable to.

==
Ross
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