Subj : Re: Binkd tools (TIC, FREQ's...), gating, and setup
To   : rec9140@n999.r135.z1.fidonet.org
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Sep 20 2016 10:25 pm

Hi,

On 2016-09-20 09:27:32, rick christian wrote to All:
  about: "Binkd tools (TIC, FREQ's...), gating, and setup":

 rc> While I am waiting for a reply to my (re)join request to get a proper
 rc> node number... a few questions on set up, or err... fine tuning the
 rc> setup... things seem to be working good... Thank you ALAN!

 rc> 1) Polling of NC/hub???

 rc>  What kind of cron job have others setup/use for this???? Since in my
 rc> FD
 rc> days I had "metro" service the local calls to my hub/NC were "FREE" so
 rc> I
 rc> polled often to get echomail, and routed netmail etc...

Don't poll. Just agree with your links to have them crash it to you direct,
whenever there is mail available. That's how most links function these days.

 rc> 4) Gating -

 rc> Not entirely binkd related... but since I was GUUCP at the time, and I
 rc> worked with Jason Fesler on the betas and releases of GIGO I am
 rc> curious as
 rc> to what others are doing to gate at minimum netmail < - > email. And
 rc> had
 rc> PGH's first ISP provided uucp (Telerama, sadly gone in 2008 :(  )

 rc> GIGO is dead, Mr. Fesler doesn't seem too interested in getting
 rc> bothered
 rc> about it.. the KEY gen form is dead on his site...The gigo-l and gigo
 rc> echo
 rc> are gone....the various posts about GIGO and being asked about it are
 rc> well, rude.

I once was a gigo user. But I no longer feel the need to mix netmail with
e-mail. So I keep them separate, and don't do any gating...


Bye, Wilfred.


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