Bob Stout wrote in a message to All:

 BS> From: Bob Stout 

 BS> On 7 Nov 2003 Kris.OKelly!1.261.1396.0{at}filegate.net wrote:

> it came here too :) is this a new echo?

 BS> No, it's the same C_Echo, but this is a new gateway between Fido
 BS> and the Internet. If everything works as planned, this will replace
 BS> the previous (and sporadically unreliable) Yahoo groups gateway. It
 BS> also won't have Yahoo's ads appended to every message.

 BS> This reply was posted to the SNIPPETS C mailing list which serves
 BS> as the Internet end of the gateway. Please let me know if this
 BS> reply gets through to the Fido world.

I saw two of these,  differing in the last paragraph...

Thought I had a problem with Yahoo as well,  though as it turned out the
problem there was my (former!) provider's heavy-handed way of dealing with
spam issues.  No ads sounds good,  though.  :-)

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