Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: USENET hookup for Atari ST! Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 90 14:29:18 GMT References: <30608@cup.portal.com> Organization: Otter Lake Leisure Society Lines: 47 X-Member-Of: STdNET [In article <30608@cup.portal.com>, Jonathan_S_Nowak@cup.portal.com writes ... ] > I saw a ad for an Atari BBS in Europe, with USENET access. How can this > be done? I have a 1040 St and would like to run USENET on my BBS, any ideas? > Thanks in advance.... > ---JSN Finding a newsfeed is the hard part. "Ask around." The software part is easy. STadel, a version of Citadel BBS software, has supported UUCP mail and Usenet news for a couple of years now. (You do not see postings on the net from STadel sites because most STadels that receive this discussion have set it to read-only status. Allowing access to Usenet on an open BBS has a potential for abuse.) The BBS is "room-structured," with very good support for message handling including such features as protocol upload and download of messages, ROT13, and a choice of prompted or streamed reading. The file structure is integrated into the room structure. All the major protocols are supported, and external programs are easily added. STadel also networks with other STadels, Citadel-86 (IBM), and compatible Amiga systems. There are a couple of hundred networking Citadels in the United States and Canada. STadel, like most Citadel software, is free. You can get more information from the Minnesota Atari ST (MAST) BBS, (612) 472-6582. MAST supports all the popular baud rates, 300-9600, V.32 and 18,000bps Telebit PEP. I think Chris Allen may be running one in England. (Chris?) If you don't want to change BBS software, you're out of luck unless you want to write your own import-export programs. The Internet RFCs document the Usenet message format and can be obtained by mail. See the newsgroup news.announce.newusers for the periodical posting "How to Obtain Information About Networks." In addition, you would need a UUCP-compatible transport mechanism. A good one will be released Real Soon Now. -- Steve Yelvington at the lake in Minnesota = steve@thelake.mn.org