Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!xenitec!geoffw
From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh dialin account)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: comp.os.os2 <---> FidoNET gateway
Keywords: fido gateway comp.os.os2 link
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.004300.4466@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 8 Feb 90 00:43:00 GMT
References: <2435@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Fido gateway operator, eastern Canada)
Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada
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In article <2435@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>This is a formal request for immediate disconnection of the
>FidoNET gateway to the USENET group comp.os.os2.
> [...]
>The gateway maintainer and I have discussed this and he informs me
>that he cannot set messages originating in FidoNET to have an
>appropriate value in the Distribution: field and is not in a position
>to filter the messages originating on FidoNET.

   Have you made that specific request directly to the operator of
the gateway? I would be disappointed - no, make that alarmed! - if
you did not receive his/her co-operation.

   If it is not the gateway operator that is linking the two nets'
conferences, then the gateway operator still has the option of
disconnecting the offending Fido site's Usenet feed (and filing a
complaint against that site's operator, possibly having it removed
from FidoNet... I have strayed from topic).

>I have encouraged the FidoNET gateway maintainer to create an OS/2
>newsgroup under a fidonet.* or fido.* top-level heirarchy.

   I'd like to see *all* Fido conferences carried under a fido.*
hierarchy on Usenet, but that would significantly increase the volume
presently being carried by the Net and I doubt that enough system
administrators would be willing to carry the load, given the "noise",
as you call it.

   Anyway, the bottom line is that you should discuss the removal
of the cross-link with the operator but, if you cannot achieve the
separation, let me know and I'll see what peace I can disturb in
that neighbourhood.

   Geoff

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