Subj : Re: Female Spam is *not*
To   : Sean Rima
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Fri Feb 15 2002 05:07 pm

 -=> On 02-15-02  20:46, Sean Rima <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Female Spam is *not* <=-

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

 SR> It is gating, gating is what happens when you link 2 
 SR> networks together that have seperat transmission protocols.
 
  I agree with your definition of gating, and that is why Shannon is not
  gating.  He is not linking two networks together.   I don't understand
  why you cannot understand that.

                        dale (at) min (dot) net
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