Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Development
Subject: Re: WINS tests
From:    Weatherman #1 @1 (Mark)
To:      Jimmy Mac #1 @707
Date:    Thu Mar 09, 2023 07:15

JM> It's been at least 10 years, but I did have both e-mail and USEnet
JM> working using WINS, on the e-mail side, I was using the ArGoSoft
JM> mailserver to relay to my on-prem Exchange server. Outbound was working
JM> great, but I nver really tested inbound. Altough time is still a
JM> commodity I have very little of, I am willing to look into it again to
JM> see what I did to get it working.

I used to use WINS long ago for the same thing, and then was using D'Bridge's
usenet import (which I think was using VSOUP).  That method was making all the
usenet areas basically FTN message areas that WWIVTOSS would import into WWIV.

Interest faded overall in usenet and I don't think the import works anymore and
not sure that Nick Andre is still using it, either.

It seems that message areas like Reddit have taken the place of Usenet.

- Mark

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