Subj : 2038: still be running a
To   : August Abolins
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Mar 26 2021 17:57:33

Hello August,

Thursday March 25 2021 23:25, you wrote to me:

 AA> How is NNTP not-gating?

Because the mail is not being gated to another network or being posted publicly on the Internet via an uncontrolled method.  When a BBS runs a NNTP gate for echomail, it's simply a network topology conversion.

 AA> Echomail is a term long associated with FTN.  It is a just an
 AA> echochat by another name.  ;)

Echomail is also not officially part of Fidonet.  It's considered such now but P4 covers netmail which was what Fidonet was originally designed for.  Echomail was a kludge slapped onto Fidonet years later.

 AA> Sounds interesting. I don't know what this Blackhole thing is.

Blackhole is a DOS-based program that will strip an echomail message's FROM and TO addresses as well as SEEN-BY lines and replace them with another FTN network's address and SEEN-BY lines per a config file.

For example, I send a message in CHWARE as 1:18/200.  I run Blackhole and that same message is converted to being from 618:618/10 in Micronet.  It's something that was greatly frowned on for decades in Fidonet but since I know the moderator of CHWARE and the guy who runs Micronet, it's cool. <G>

Later,
Sean

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