Subj : Female Spam is *not*
To   : Sean Rima
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Sat Feb 16 2002 06:31 am

Also, you please Sean.


 > 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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