Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!hoptoad!pozar From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar) Newsgroups: alt.bbs Subject: Re: New BBS Revision Coming Message-ID: <9703@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 16 Jan 90 18:27:37 GMT References: <1408@milton.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco) Lines: 36 In article <1408@milton.acs.washington.edu> milton@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) writes: >References: <8285@nigel.udel.EDU> >Sender: >Reply-To: milton@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) >Followup-To: >Distribution: na >Organization: University of Washington, Seattle >Keywords: bbs, > >In article <8285@nigel.udel.EDU> boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) writes: >>I'm on the verge of a new revision of my BBS software and I'd like to ask >>what features folks are looking for these days. Some of the things I've > >How about USENET access in a bulletin board??? I am currently writing a >bulletin board myself and want to be able to access USENET from the BBS >What I would like to know how to do, but am having a problem figuring out is >how to pretend that my terminal is just a node of the USENET. I have heard >that there is software for the PC that does this...but acnnot find it or find >the source...Does anyone else think that this wqould be w3a good thing...anor >does anyone else know where I could find any such software? With UFGATE (UUCP/USENET <=> FidoNet gateway software) any FidoNet system can read and post USENET newsgroups. You don't even have to run the software. It converts newsgroups into FidoNet "Echos". Tim -- Tim Pozar Try also... Internet: pozar@toad.com Fido: 1:125/555 PaBell: (415) 788-3904 USNail: KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108