Subj : Re: Newsgroups?
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Mon Jul 23 2001 09:32 pm

 -=> On 07-23-01  16:26, Ross Cassell <=-
 -=> spoke to Todd Cochrane about Newsgroups? <=-

 RC> Case in point, look at the newsgroups Dale Ross handles in 
 RC> the NTHELP and OSDEBATE echoes, he is gating from the 
 RC> barktopia newsgroups.

   Some questions for you -- for my information:

   When you see a post in those "echos" that originated on the Internet
   side, do you see who posted it.  Is there any meaningful thing in
   the TO: field other than TO: ALL?  When the people on the other side
   read your messages do they see who they are from?  When you examine
   the control fields on the message (MSGID, PATH, SEEN-BY) can you tell
   where the message originated or does it look like it came from Dale
   Ross' BBS?

   It is my belief that one prime difference in Fido Echos and Internet
   newsgroups is the presence of the TO: field.   For the most part, we
   have people talking with people instead of posting messages to the
   anonymous masses.

                        dale (at) min (dot) net
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