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From: rick@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG (Rick Ellis)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: FidoNET Gateways to USENET
Message-ID: <226.25CA464A@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 3 Feb 90 02:44:01 GMT
Organization: Universal Electronics Inc.
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In a message David C Lawrence writes:

 >I admittedly don't understand FidoNET that well, so I'll ask about this
 >-- how likely is it that someone who originates an article on FidoNET
 >will put some tag on it that says, "Don't make this go beyond the
 >FidoNET.  Don't gateway it to USENET."?  I'd say not very likely.  It
 >seems that people on FidoNET echos view them in a very different light
 >from readers of USENET newsgroups.
 
The biggest technical problem would be that FidoNet doesn't have any kind of   
distribution tags.  



 >Having FidoNET users put on distribution classifications which were
 >respected by FidoNET gateway sites probably won't happen.  

At least not very often.  FidoNet is mostly made up of public access BBS   
systems.  No matter how hard you try to educate the users...

 

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Rick Ellis
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