Subj : Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
To   : tenser
From : Oli
Date : Mon Sep 13 2021 08:12 am

tenser wrote (2021-09-13):

 t> On 10 Sep 2021 at 07:02a, Oli pondered and said...

 Ol>> Will it support the Gatebau '97 standard? Or is the NNTP server
 Ol>> only for local news clients? (like JamNNTPd).

 t> Well, my NNTP server is intended to be the message store for
 t> my BBS, and that's it; that is, I don't intend to peer with
 t> anyone else necessarily.  Certainly, I have no upstream to the
 t> public USENET, nor do I intend to.

In this case it doesn't really matter if it's Gatebau compatible.

Let's hope nobody else gets the idea to use your software and misuse it for usenet <-> echomail gating ;-). Like soupgate that was never intended to work as a public gateway, but still is used by several systems.

 t> As for the Gatebau standards...  My German is pretty bad, so
 t> probably only incidentally.

For the MSGID conversion there is an English document:

http://fidogate.sourceforge.net/msgid.html

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