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From: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fido <--> Unix
Message-ID: <1605@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 22:15:43 EST
Article-I.D.: bunker.1605
Posted: Fri Feb 27 22:15:43 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 15:36:24 EST
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Reply-To: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
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Organization: Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, CT
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To the best of my knowledge, there is only one gateway where
mail can be transferred automatically between the FidoNet and the
UUCP network.  On the uucp side is "vaxine" (Automatix in Mass.
run by Bob Hartman) and on the FidoNet side is "spark".  "vaxine"
polls "spark" daily but due to phone traffic at spark, the connection
is very iffy and may take a long, long time (days? weeks? years?) for your
mail to arrive.

The FidoNet node and number along with the person's name is simply
added to the end of the uucp address.  For example,

	..!decvax!wanginst!vaxine!spark!123!45!Ronald_Reagan

To use this gateway in reverse, that is, to send mail from FidoNet
to uucp'land, send the mail to the gateway node which is 132/101.
The very first line of the message must be the uucp path and it must
be the only thing on the line with no leading spaces.  For example:

wanginst!decvax!bunker!wtm


The other alternative is to find someone who has access to both
uucp and FidoNet.  I am the moderator of the Handicap News news
group ("misc.handicap") and all of the articles are posted to
the FidoNet echomail disABLEd conference and vice versa.  Doctor
David Dodell, who is the coordinator of the echomail conference,
captures the FidoNet articles, manually transfers them to an uucp
system and mails them to me.

(There is talk of opening another gateway -- If I hear more,
 I'll post an article.)

Hope this answers your questions.

				Bill McGarry
				Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT

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