Subj : Re: Female Spam is a virus
To   : David Calafrancesco
From : Sean Rima
Date : Sun Feb 17 2002 01:04 am

David Calafrancesco was alleged to have written to Sean Rima

 SR> It is a technicial difference of opinion. Any method of reading
 SR> writing outside of FTN Software including BBS software is gating.
 SR> And I was specifically asked by SuSE when I started gating not to
 SR> allow any NNTP access.

 DC> By that definition, making it available in BlueWave, QWK or other
 DC> offline mail reader is just as much gating. You might want to remove
 DC> your echos from anyone who uses a QWK or bluewave system. Especially
 DC> QWK as it can be used to really gate from one network to another and so
 DC> many QWK readers are Y2K broken.

You answered your own question, if you use QWK to changed it from Fidonet to 
another network, you gate. 99.99% of people using QWK or Bluewave would not be 
doing this.

Sean


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