Subj : Re: FTN  / Usenet to a new BBS
To   : Joacim Melin
From : tenser
Date : Sat May 09 2020 05:38:13

On 08 May 2020 at 01:53p, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
 
 JM> I'm in the process of moving all my FTN based stuff (including my Usenet
 JM> feed from Avon et. al) to a FreeBSD based BBS system called Sklaffkom
 JM> (it's Swedish). It can handle Usenet feeds but not any FTN stuff since
 JM> it was never written for it. I can get Binkd running in FreeBSD without
 JM> any problems but I'm dumbfounded on how to get the .MSG files into a
 JM> "Usenet" format that the import/export utility in Sklaffkom can handle. 
 JM> 
 JM> Anyone got any ideas?  

This is ugly, at best.  To be clear here, you want to
translate between Fidonet-style binary message formats,
and RFC1036 format?  Something like `fidogate` can do
that, but it's really old and pretty unmaintained.

I've got to work on my code to do this; I just haven't
had time.

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