Subj : Female Spam is *not* a virus To : Gary Gilmore From : mark lewis Date : Fri Feb 22 2002 06:13 am RC>> Shannon, I have to point out that Shannon was not gating. For him to RC>> have been gating as I understand it GG> I have to point out you're wrong. Once messages "leave" the GG> FTN format, they've been "gated" to another (NNTP)... it's GG> gating. You're talking propagation. please define "the FTN format"... are SQUish, Hudson, JAM, EZYcom, wildcat, PCBoard message bases "the FTN format"? or is the PKT the only real FTN format? remember, PKTs are how we transfer the messages from one system/server to another... the others are local message base storage formats... several were "invented" outside of fidonet... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .