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From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Any mechanism for usenet<-->BIX cross posting ?
Message-ID: <1104890145483129@thelake.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 89 07:45:48 GMT
References: <280@legs.UUCP> <329@charyb.COM> <5546@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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In article <5546@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>,
     pa1027@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (John C. Fowler) writes ... 

>In article <329@charyb.COM> dan@charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) writes:
>>In article <280@legs.UUCP> dash@legs.UUCP (Darrell Shively) writes:
>>>Is there any mechanism for sending email from the usenet
>>>network to someone who is a user of BIX ?
>>
>>There is a service called DASNET that supports mail between BIX and 
>>various other nets (MCI, Usenet, etc.).
>
>Time for the obligatory Usenet correction (I'll try to keep it
>short).  Remember, "Usenet" is what you're reading right now.  It's
>not something you send mail over.  You send mail over UUCP, or the
>Internet, or whatever, but there's no such thing as a Usenet account.

Good point. Usenet is a public discussion network that flows over a
strange variety of physical connections.

By the way, there is (theoretically) a mechanism for cross-posting of
public messages between Usenet and BIX. The Citadel (STadel) BBS network
currently uses BIX as a backbone for several discussion groups, notably C,
STadel, and Atari ST.* The BBS software also has the capability of carrying
Usenet news (forwarded via UUCP links). I don't think there currently is a
Usenet<->Citadel<->BIX news link, but it is not impossible. (Note: E-mail
can flow from UUCP through multiple Citadel connections, but the Citadel-BIX 
connection doesn't know what to do with it.)

   --
   * This link was set up shortly after Telenet/PC-Pursuit boosted its
     rates and cracked down on heavy users, many of whom were BBS sysops
     networking via PC-Pursuit.
   --
   -- Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota        
  ... pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve             (UUCP)