Subj : watergate
To   : Steve Bainbridge
From : Ger Vloothuis
Date : Tue Jan 02 2001 04:53 pm

Hello Steve!

30 Dec 28 17:30, Steve Bainbridge wrote to all:

 SB> I used to run watergate, but, unfortunatly, it will not without a lot
 SB> of messing round do NG,s via my ISP,s news server, so I had to switch
 SB> over to using IREX

Mmmm... I think that Irex does different things than Watergate.  They are 
rather complementary pieces of software.  Irex doesn't toss any mail and 
Watergate doesn't talk SMTP/POP3.  The only thing in common is that they can 
both perform gateway functions, but of course you can configure either one as 
your gateway and switch off the other.  If you don't use Watergate you will 
need something else to toss.  If you don't use Irex, you need something else as 
a TCP/IP frontend.

Watergate and Irex can work together very nicely using either te KA9Q spool or 
the UUCP spool.  Either method works well but the KA9Q method is probably the 
best choice because the workfiles and datafiles are easier to understand and to 
construct/debug with a simple text editor (notepad).

The only known Watergate bug at this moment is that Watergate doesn't pack (run 
external archivers) very well under NT4.  Only seems to happen if you have 
multiple uplinks/downlinks.  With only one uplink it seems to work OK.  There 
don't seem to be any problem at all under Windows 95/98.  But for NT4 there 
might be a workaround for that some time when someone figures out why there is 
a problem.

Cheers

Ger


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