Subj : Female Spam is *not*
To   : Sean Rima
From : Bennie Hutto
Date : Fri Feb 15 2002 09:53 am

Hello Sean.

15 Feb 02 20:46, you wrote to Dale Shipp:

DS>>   And his making the messages available via NNTP *FORMAT* is
DS>> provided by
DS>>   the BBS system he is using.   Likewise, many sysops make the
DS>> Fido
DS>>   messages available via HTTP format, readable by a web browser
DS>> such as
DS>>   MSIE or Netscape.   That is not gating anymore than allowing
DS>> the
DS>>   messages to be read by a newsgroup format reader.

SR> It is gating, gating is what happens when you link 2 networks together
SR> that have seperat transmission protocols.

There. You've done it. No 2 networks were linked together, therefore,
no gating occured.

DS>  SR>> It is a gateway, it is a gate between BBS/Fido and NNTP. No
DS>  SR>> matter how you look at it. And saying that echos are being
DS>>
DS>>   See above.

SR>  And apart from the fact that the SUSE had a specific ban n NNTP
SR> access.

Even if the NNTP shares exactly the same msgbase that a .QWK or BW download
would recieve?


Regards,
Bennie


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