Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!rosevax!ems!nis!stag!trb
From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP WANTED on UUCP for the Amiga
Message-ID: <323@stag.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 18:14:54 GMT
References: <6787@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <6787@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) writes:
>Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) wrote:
>...if you have enough people participating.  In areas with densely
>...packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network?
>...Then you'd only need one gateway to the rest of the networld, and you'd
>...have a better argument to make to Joe Corporate that he'd be doing a
>...great thing for the wider computing community.
>
>Heh, heh, heh...
>
>Actually that is exactly what I am interested in setting up. 

You might want to check into the Amiga Citadel BBS development
efforts. I am currently acting as a gateway for the ST version of
Citadel (STadel). The author of STadel has had full UUCP mail access
capability set up for several months now, and just recently we started
room sharing of specific USENET sections (comp.sys.atari.st for now).
With Citadels' room/floor hierarchy this maps pretty nicely into
USENET. Also, the Citadels' capability to network with other Citadels
(they have implemented addresses in the form of: user_name@site) makes
the gateway very powerful. That would mean that one gateway to USENET
could serve the needs of both Amiga and ST owners (oh yes, also the
IBM PC and CP/M Citadel BBS's out there).

If the Amiga version doesn't have this capability yet, ask the authors
why, since the source code for STadel is PD...

  -Todd Burkey
   trb@stag.UUCP

P.S. you can contact the author of the STadel package at:
     orc@pell.UUCP  or ...ihnp4!meccts!stag!pell!orc