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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about USENET (/bitnet)
Message-ID: <18.23DD4216@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 24 Jan 89 22:08:31 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:120/999 - The Enterprise, Ann Arbor MI
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 > " 3.  What  other network are connected to the news services (FIDO-
 > " NET,...?)
 > 
 > I can't say.  I'd guess none other than internet sites.  There might
 > be a one way connection from fidonet, since there's a newsgroup
 > on fido stuff.

Actually, there is "sort of" a two-way connection to Fidonet.  It's 
possible that there is a gateway Fidonet node out there, forwarding Usenet 
onto Fidonet.  I'm using the translation software (Usenet <-> Fido) now to 
read this message.  It's called UFGATE, and (besides the uucico 
implimentation, and news/mail importers/exporters), it includes utilities to 
forward news and mail to another Fidonet node.  I don't know if anyone is 
actually doing it, but in theory, it's possible.



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