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Subject: Distant Drums
Message-ID: <1994.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 20 Nov 90 13:14:49 GMT
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Category 14,  Topic 8
Message 65        Mon Nov 19, 1990
GARY-S                       at 06:42 EST
 
         
 Lance -
   I just received a forwarded message from jax that you originated.

   re: comp.lang.forth <-> ForthNet
  -  I receive usenet newsgroup comp.lang.forth, and generally have to
     hand sort and stuff the messages onto GEnie's Forth RoundTable.
  -  Doug Philips reverses this process by retrieving messages off of 
     GEnie's Forth RoundTable and forwarding them to comp.lang.forth.
     His task is much more automated, because he has to deliver _all_
     messages in common to only one target. It would be totally auto-
     mated except he must hand-reject those not permitted on comp.lang.
     forth. ie: blatantly commercial and idle chatter are killed.
   - Jim Wenzel, SysOp of Grapevine is the other major cog. Jim retreives
     messages off GEnie and stuffs them into conference 58 on Grapevine.
     His task is _totally_ automated since he need only filter all the
     capture through a trap to remove messages I have tagged with the
     Ported from xCFB's => header. 
   - I also complete this loop by retrieving messages from Grapevine 
     and hand sorting them and stuffing them in the appropriate category
     and topic on GEnie. I can automate the kill on messages that Jim
     retrieved from GEnie, but I have no way to sort except manually.
   - Ray and Jax have already begun their maildrops on Grapevine, so we
     have benefit of their messages along with those that come off RIME.
     We are missing yours and Jack Browns' traffic. Grapevine is debugged
     so you need only register on 501-753-8121. Thereafter you can use
     501-753-6859 which will hunt if busy and the other line is open.
     Please try to get ACFB back into the loop, Lance.

   re: my UUCP address:
     I am sending this from my home site, so you should have a complete
     path. The bang path from uunet is ... 
                 uunet!ddi1!lrark!glsrk!gars  
                   please note, the backbone is    d d i 1 (one) not l (el)
     Lance, you will probably have to use an explicit bang path until all
     path lists are updated.

      Best regards, Gary
     __         _ (Gary Smith) uunet!ddi1!lrark!glsrk!gars * gars@glsrk.uucp *
    / _' _   _ (_' P. O. Drawer 7680    *  GEnie Forth RT  &  Unix RT SysOp  *
   /__/ (_|_/ '._) Little Rock,AR 72217 * winken!well!gars * claris!wet!gars *
  ----------------        - U. S. A. -  * ames!chinet!gars * ph:501-227-7817 *

  I chatted with Jim after I had sent you the above via uucp, so I hope
  you will also read this, Lance. Jimadvises there is RIME activity in
  OZ, and it would be a relatively simple matter for you to link ACFB
  with an Australian RIME hub. If you can not locate one from your end,
  we can gather that information and forward it to you. cheers - gars
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