When Mike Tripp started talkin about Soup packet to squish echo areas,

I just had to jump in and say....



 JS> Am looking for a program that will toss from & export to soup packets



 MT> SOUP2SQ does exactly what you ask...both directions.  If you have



Found that and installed it, seems to work OK, but its not 'quite'

what I am after.  Although it does seem to work real nice for the

limited amount of areas that I am pulling in with souper.



 MT> PPP/SLIP access and don't really need SOUP as an intermediate file

 MT> format, NGate will transfer directly between an NNTP server and

 MT> Squishbases.  Both native OS/2, distributed in the Filebone FWCOMM



Something about Ngate didn't appeal to me when I looked at it.  Don't

remember what it was though.



 MT> echo, usable enough for personal consumption, and still a little too

 MT> finicky for high volume hubbing of newsgroups. 



Don't need them for high volumn hubbing, but do need the high volume

of importing.(If I let the users have there say in the matter that

is



Thanks for the info, its appreciated.



  John

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