In a message to All, John Nieminen  wrote:

JN> How about if I setup a *NIX box here at my office for you to use? I
JN> have one that I'm running my personal stuff on, and if possible, I
JN> can add to it to handle your gateway too.  Give me some details on
JN> what you need from the box, and we'll see if we can put something
JN> together here. I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.x on my boxes. 

I'm not sure how that would work...  What I do currently is dial my ISP,
netside.net (a local call) and establish a ppp connecction; then my ftp
client uploads FidoNet mail to my regional hub, and download new mail.  My
mail tosser (GECHO/OS2) tosses the fidomail into a Hudson Messagebase, and
my own fido2net program converts outgoing Fidonet mail to SOUP packets.
Then VSOUPER, an OS2 SOUP application uploads the SOUP packets to netside's
smtp server and downloads new mail from his POP3 server, which is tossed to
my YARN messagebase.  My net2fido program then converts the new YARN
messages to Hudson messagebase format, GECHO scans the messagebase, and
packs new mail for Fidonet for ftp transmission to the region hub, and the
process is repeated

All my software runs on this box in OS2 text mode, but interfaces with Unix
vis a local call (as Villa Maria has its own switchboard and long distance
calls require operator intervention) to netside.net.

I've investigated other ISP'S in the neighborhood, but most are either more
expensive or require GUI interfacing that I can't do (and can't program
for).

I haven't really got any ideas beyond that.  What do you think?

       N'a pale pi ta,
           Rachel

http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
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