It's simply incredible what John Jaros said to Gaylen Hintz
 JJ> Hi Gaylen...
  Hi John!
 JJ> Fred has given us permission as the Fido {COMMO} echo
 JJ> Moderator to GATE the {COMMO} Fido echo into MacroNET. I had
 JJ> talked to Jeff about that previously, and unless he's changed
 JJ> his mind, we have green lights to gate.
  Super Deal!
 JJ> Other than our binary limitation, we're Fido 'compliant' as
 JJ> far as our network taglines and whatnot. With your Fido 'door
 JJ> setup' you'd be the natural choice for the gate. Let me know
 JJ> if you'd be willing to do that. If not, I'll install a
  Sure, No problem.. it might be a little rough for the first couple
times around but I'm sure it will work.  I do already pull in the
FidoNet {COMMO} Conference so passing it back and forth shouldn't be
much of a problem. :)
 JJ> QWKREP converter and do it manually. We're not talking about
 JJ> gating anything else here outside of the {COMMO} echo, so
 JJ> we're not looking at all that much traffic.
  True, and the fido echo is not that large either.. consider it
done!
  Cheers and have a great day!  From the Curmudgeon of MacroNet!
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