Subj : here's hoping..
To   : mark lewis
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Mar 12 2019 22:57:47

Hello mark,

On Tuesday 20:39:50, you wrote:

 AA>> Thanks for the ack.   I couldn't seem to find this echo on a couple of
 AA>> other systems that were providing Fidonet.

 ML> it is available here and has been for years since it was initially formed
 ML> ;)


Yes..  I was pulling in a handful of echoes from your nntp feed a while ago.  
Thank you SO MUCH for that, btw.

BUT.. sadly, the ng pointers kept messing up.  A reset/renumber on my end (in 
Thunderbird) was not helping.  Maybe it was a shortcoming in the TB version 
that I still prefer to use. The pointer problem started affecting some of the 
other ngs I was reading from your feed too.  So, I decided to try another feed 
- thus, Tommi's system from Finland which I gleened from the list of JamNNTPd 
servers in the fidonews newsletter.  

Everything looked good from Tommi's feed, BUT there was no FIDOGAZETTE echo as 
ng available. I thought that my access to the echo would not be possible and I 
started to resign to that reality.  Just lurking in it would have been 
satisfactory.

https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/is a fine solution, but there is no FIDOGAZETTE.

http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/ has FIDOGAZETTE, but the page loads blank.

MEANWHILE, with other interests in mind, I ventured onto WinPoint. Tommiset me 
all up to talk to his system.  An areafix request listed FIDOGAZETTE,  ..and 
here I am.  And, the other ngs/nntp/echoes behave very nicely from his system 
for my occassional fallback with Thunderbird too.

I really really appreaciated the nntp feed from you, but the pointer problem 
(even after the reset/renumber) was not pulling in the most recent posts 
anymore.  I even cleared all remnants of the files that TB uses for storing 
particular ngs.  But each time I reconnected and re-subscribed to fidogazette, 
the problem persisted.

.../|ug

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