-=> On 03-17-19 03:49, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 AA> Too late.  fidonet.ozzmosis.com posts everything from the echos in the
 AA> clear, since 2002.   And from the looks of it, nothing gets purged.

Looks like that particular horse has well and truly bolted. ;)

 AA> Very handy!   LOL


 > OK, but one could argue similarly against gating Fidonet to fidonet.* or
 > alt.bbs.fidonet.* newsgroups too. :)

 AA> That has been experimented with.  I tried that with the IEEE echo and
 AA> comp.org.ieee, briefly.  I quickly realized that it could become filled
 AA> with garbage.  Today comp.org.ieee is relatively clean, but there is
 AA> the ocassional troll or annoyance.

I know Usenet is routinely gated to Fidonet and other FTNs, and I had a
suspicion that there were experiments done in the other direction too.


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