Hey Gert!

Aug 27 23:35 07, Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 GKA> ad more updated now, but is only Jam format echo style.

Another obsoleted format?  So basically all ported Fido software only
supplies internal formats that nobody can read, nevermind write to without
additional ported abandonware.  Perhaps that Is the reasoning behind
newsgroup gateways?

 GKA> Right so many why I am RC ad Zc of several nets lot of nodes there 
 GKA> pool for mail. :-)

What percentage use traditional Fido connection methods and software?  Also
would you say traditional methods are expanding, contracting or relatively
stable within your area of concern?

 GKA> THere is some special newsgroups and list there not is in Fido, 
 GKA> where i have t do it this way so a news client ad fiogate shall do 
 GKA> this work for me.

Why not just use newsgroup capable software?  How does either group benefit
from gating to the other?

 GKA> the hust pl or just pl files can for linux do mail reports and other 
 GKA> kind of report making and then can hpt then post the files into a 
 GKA> echo or netmail.

In what format?  Can I just use cat, more or less to read the output?

 GKA> I have tried to write a pl file there should rename the echo tag but 
 GKA> it have not yet worked for me by stopes by 2 syntax errors. Te file 
 GKA> has been told and show in linux echo.

I saw that.  In my particular case - the machine where the node resides -
perl is not an option.  It is a more traditional Unixie machine based upon
the earliest Unix philosophy.  Bloatware isn't a possibility there.

 GKA> Just looking for at newsgroup provider in US the have some local 
 GKA> states specail groups my own provider and isp not have.

Understood.  Do you find many?

Life is good,
Maurice

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