Subj : Re: FTN  / Usenet to a new BBS
To   : tenser
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Sat May 09 2020 19:26:34

 t> On 08 May 2020 at 01:53p, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
 t>  
 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?  

 t> This is ugly, at best.  To be clear here, you want to
 t> translate between Fidonet-style binary message formats,
 t> and RFC1036 format?  Something like `fidogate` can do
 t> that, but it's really old and pretty unmaintained.

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

I didn't know about the RFC1036 format but yeah - that's the general idea. if it can't be done then that's not the end of the world but it would be pretty neat to get it to work. 

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