Subj : Re: Female Spam is *not*
To   : Bennie Hutto
From : Sean Rima
Date : Sat Feb 16 2002 05:32 am

Bennie Hutto was alleged to have written to Sean Rima

 BH> Hello Sean.

 BH> 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.

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

2 networks were joined. NNTP was never mean't to read Fidonet nor Fidonet 
mean't to read NNTP. I gate some newsgroups here, they *never* go anywhere 
else, but I still gate them.

The simplest way to look at it is that the with the NNTP gate Fidonet and NNTP 
would be standing on either side of a fence without beng able to talk to each 
other. Put that gate in place and open it, both networks can talk together.

 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.

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

They asked for no NNTP access, it doesn't matter the where's and from' they 
said no nntp access and I honoured that. Even if I had my own NNTP access to 
the BBS, I would have not allowed access to them via NNTP.

Sean


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