-=> On 03-17-19 06:15, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

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

I think you're misunderstanding me.  That looks like a newsgroup that's been
gated to Fidonet.  Sure, the gate is bidirectional, but the original entity was
the newsgroup.  The Fido echo only came along after the gateway was setup
(unless both existed as separate entities).

That is routinely done today, and BBS packages like Synchronet can do the
gating without any additional software.

What would be a big no-no (most moderator posts I've seen on Fidonet explicitly
forbit it anyway) is to gate an echo like this to something like say
alt.bbs.fido-echomail.fidonews.  In this case, the original messaging area is
the Fidonet echo, and the newsgroup only gets created because of the gateway.


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