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From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh dialin account)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: FidoNET Gateways to USENET
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.010424.4684@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 8 Feb 90 01:04:24 GMT
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In article <90Feb5.185126est.27351@snow.white.toronto.edu> cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>| If you gateway it at multiple places just make sure
>| the Message-ID isn't lost.  No body will complain. 
>
> The last time I looked, Fidonet didn't have the idea of message-id;
>they prevent routing loops by very carefully controlling their network
>topology. Anyone gatewaying a Fidonet echomail area into Usenet and
>vice-versa should make VERY sure they're the only person doing this.

   That's not entirely true, but it's safest to assume that there's no
limit to what gateways will do when munging mail.

   If the Net is interested (which I doubt), I'll give details on how
FidoNet deals with duplicate messages... but it suffices to say that
a mechanism does exist (and, ironically, it sometimes kills legit
"first-run" postings copied from Usenet groups!).

   I presume that you are speaking on the subject of FidoNet because
no one else here is... thanks! I will probably be jumping on anything
that refers to Fido (even in passing) for the next while.

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