Tony Langdon : August Abolins wrote:

>  > 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 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.

It was working both ways in IEEE quite nicely.  But the professional-speak in
comp.org.ieee did not appeal to many fido sysops.
But there were still interesting announcements from the tech world. There was
little traffic in the IEEE -> comp.org.ieee direction, except my own!

I *did* meet some other engineers that observed the headers from my posts to
comp.org.ieee and this spawned opportunities to talk about BBSing and Fidonet.

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