Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!fts1!michael
From: michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: comp.os.os2 <---> FidoNET gateway
Summary: I think this is a general problem.
Message-ID: <136@fts1.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 05:07:43 GMT
References: <2435@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson)
Organization: Fountain Technical Services, Ottawa, ON
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In article <2435@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>Said gateway was created without discussion or vote on USENET
>and has caused the signal to noise ratio of comp.os.os2 to
>dramatically decrease.  In particular about 1/3 of the messages

	Gating from FidoNet seems to be a large problem in many newsgroups,
the worst case being FidoNet BBSes that give posting abilities directly to
the news system (no gating really involved.)

>to that group in the past few days have been of the content
>"Hi Joe nice to see you here" or "Mike, I sent you the file foobar".

	The FidoNet moderator should be clamping down hard on message of that
sort --- however, while FidoNet conferences are often free to readers, 
`netmail' isn't. This is a serious problem.

>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.
  
	 You mean he isn't the moderator? Does the FidoNet moderator know
about this? I suggest that a FidoNet `policy' complaint be filled against
that node. 
	 You see, all `backbone' FidoNet echos must have a moderator. This doesn't
mean that the conference is filtered, but rather there is someone that sends out
tons of private mail to sysops and net coordinators asking that they please make
sure the charter of the echo is clear on their board, giving warnings, CUTTING 
feeds. The moderator is effectively, GOD. 

>Finally, many of the FidoNET postings appear as a single long line
>of text which is unreadable by most USENET people.

  This fellow obviously has no idea what he is doing. I'm fairly certain that 
the UFGate does the proper formating. 

>newsgroup under a fidonet.* or fido.* top-level heirarchy.

  There exists fidonet.org right now. 	

  :!mcr!:
	Michael Richardson@1:163/109.10, 1:163/138, moderator of AMIGA_PROG.
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