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From: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fido <--> Unix
Message-ID: <1873@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 15:36:03 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1873
Posted: Fri Feb 27 15:36:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 14:44:57 EST
References: <506@savax.UUCP> <1868@hoptoad.uucp> <524@puff.WISC.EDU>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream (San Francisco)
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In article <524@puff.WISC.EDU> plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher) writes:
>>>There is a FIDO 132/101 which does that.  ...  Sysop is Bob Hartman.
>>   WARNING!  
>>   This gateway is unreliable at best!
>
>I just got a message on the local (madison, wi) FIDO which was mailed
>from a Unix* system LAST NOVEMBER! (In case you haven't checked lately,
>this is February, and I still need to send out Christmas Thank-Yous!)
>I should point out that when a
>message gets to Bob's system, he ends up calling the destination FIDO.
>This means that HE has to absorb the long distance phone call costs!
>
>Keep an eye out for the uuslave postings here and in comp.*uucp*.  This
>program would allow *ANY* Fido to become a MAIL gateway.
>

   Of which, BTW, we are working on.  Currently, I have the code to decompose
the fido style mail packets and am in the middle of writing the code to turn
it into 822 style mail.  We are also debugging uuslave and looking at the 
feasibility to use it in the gateway.  We are in a very early stage of the 
project.  Interest in the project should be sent to: spot-m@hoptoad.UUCP.
But be advised that since the project is in an early stage, betas will not
be comming out in the next couple of weeks.  We will announce the beta release
and will be looking for beta sites then.
      Tim

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