Subj : /gate /blackhole /black /hole
To   : Alan Ianson
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue May 12 2020 10:32 am

  Re: /gate /blackhole /black /hole
  By: Alan Ianson to mark lewis on Mon May 11 2020 17:00:58


 ml>> i do remember the archive was named BHxxxxxx where the x's were
 ml>> numbers...

 AI> Yes, that's it. I'm hoping it'll turn up in a search of one of these archives. I am asking on Tony Langdon's behalf. He wants to do this
 AI> (he's thinking about it anyway) in one of his nets. If you happen to
 AI> have a copy there that would be great.. :)

  ftp://sestar.synchro.net/main/FIDO-GEN/bh101b07.arj

bh101b07.arj    75k     Dec 31, 1991 00:55
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BlackHole is an inter-domain EchoMail gating
utility for FidoNet(R) technology based
networks (FTN's). It will NOT gate between
different zones in the same domain, nor
between FidoNet(R) systems and/or other
technologies such as UUCP.


IIRC, frank linhares also got a copy from me several years ago ;)

kinda wishing the source code was available... can only determine that the author is/was jim with a last name starting with 'L'... the docs don't contain many other clues... but it would be nice to have the package available cross-platform... the actual task is easy enough and somewhere in the FTSC library should be some sort of documentation describing what needs to be done... i don't recall anything specific, though... plus this program is/was the base to compare with for proper gating FTN<->FTN...


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