Subj : Bringing Fidonet to small villages
To   : JOHN DOVEY
From : Flavio Bessa
Date : Mon May 17 2021 16:56:08

Hey John,

About your project, what I can think of is to create a small mail-only system 
using a Raspberry Pi, with a good NNTP server (can be either JAMNNTPD or 
Synchronet's native NNTP server) and a wireless router with an open SSID.

People would connect to this small network and have access to its services: 
perhaps an internal website explaining what can be done, than people could hook 
up into the NNTP server to have access to the echomail. Then, during a specific 
period (once a week, let's say), someone could collect the .pkt files from the 
outbound directory, send them to your system, and then you could import it and 
do the "store and forward" you've mentioned.

That's my take on what could be done with what we have right now. Also I would 
follow Ward's suggestion and publish your idea into FN_SYSOP and/or FIDO_SYSOP 
so more people can jump in.

Let me know your thoughts and how I can help.


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