In a reply from Jeff Snyder on 12:38 about Re: Is Babylon 5 Echo Dea

JS> RJ> talk to you fido-net hub and find out why, I bring in this echo from
JS> RJ> usenet, it set as a one way gate

JS> Hello again Rob. 

hi

JS> Hmmm... Okay, I am a bit confused here. 

ok

JS> I understand what mean you by pulling in the echo from UseNet, 

ok

JS> but what is a one-way gate? mean Does that that we can read the UseNet echo 
JS> in FidoNet, but not actually post any messages back to it?

post yes, but it doesn't make it back to the usenet side

JS> Also, I just visited your BBS again, and I see that you apparently set it so
JS> that when I logged on, it was set to the UseNet newsgroup called:

JS> rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


yep

JS> I looked around, and I realized that that echo is actually under
"UseNet -
JS> Misc" on your BBS, and NOT under FidoNet.

should be only under fido-net (checking now) 

the usenet area has it one net and the fido-net area has it a differnt name, the
only thing that they share in the tag part (short name) and the same messages

JS> When I went to your FidoNet area, I found the FidoNet echo. It is echo
JS> number 46 in your list, and it is called "Fido-Net Babylon 5
Discussions".
JS> There are currently 1047 messages in it, whereas there are only 103 in the
JS> Usenet Babylon 5 echo.

hmmm, the setting might be differnet, 

fido-net one :

Long Name                  Babylon 5 Discussions.
Short Name                 BABYLON5
QWK Name                   BABYLON5
Internal Code              BABYLON5
Newsgroup Name
Access Requirements
Reading Requirements
Posting Requirements
Operator Requirements
Moderated Posting User
Maximum Messages           1000
Purge by Age               Enabled (96 days old)
Duplicate Checking         Disabled

usenet one : 

Long Name                  rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Short Name                 rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.m
QWK Name                   BABYLON5
Internal Code              BABYLON5
Newsgroup Name
Access Requirements
Reading Requirements
Posting Requirements
Operator Requirements
Moderated Posting User
Maximum Messages           1000
Purge by Age               Enabled (60 days old)
Duplicate Checking         Enabled (5000 message CRCs

JS> So my question is, why are those FidoNet Babylon 5 messages not being
JS> imported to my BBS?

hmmm, good question

JS> I just checked my setup for this conference, and I have
JS> the echo's area name set to "BABYLON5". Is this the same
area name that you
JS> are using on your board, or is there perhaps another Babylon 5 echo on
JS> FidoNet that I am not aware of?

same echo

JS> Anything you can do to help would be appreciated.

ok

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