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From: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about USENET (/bitnet)
Message-ID: <4582@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 03:17:02 GMT
References: <18.23DD4216@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
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In article <18.23DD4216@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>
>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.

David Dodell from St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and I were the
first (as far as I know) to set up a two-way connection between Fidonet
and Usenet with the Handicap News (misc.handicap) newsgroup just about
two years ago (January 27, 1987).  At that time, there was no UFGATE
so it was all done by hand.

Nowadays, many, if not most, of the newgroups are connected in both
directions.

				Bill McGarry
				moderator of the Handicap News
				Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT
				(203) 337-1518

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