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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about USENET (/bitnet)
Message-ID: <1165@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 89 23:39:47 GMT
References: <18.23DD4216@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <18.23DD4216@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
| > " 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 
Not "sort of"... definitely.  Just not to *all* of Fidonet.

|possible that there is a gateway Fidonet node out there, forwarding Usenet 
|onto Fidonet.
I forward to several local systems such groups as comp.sys.ibm.pc,
rec.arts.startrek, rec.humor.funny, etc.

| I don't know if anyone is 
|actually doing it, but in theory, it's possible.
Possible, and works, too.  Users on my BBS and other local BBS's use both
Netnews and UUCP mail.

  Bill Fenner
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