liebler@romulus.rutgers.edu (steve) writes:
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>I seem to have a BBS operator interested in getting a FidoNet feed of
>c.o.l. but he needs to know the "Area Tag". His location is in
>Holmdel, NJ ( High Frontier BBS;Central NJ, Area code (908) 739 - 3693 ).

I'm fairly certain that other FidoNet-folk have already done something 
similar, and I'd advise you *not* to give him a gateway'd feed since it
sounds like he wouldn't know how to properly handle it.

The Usenet Newsgroup "comp.os.linux" may *already* be gateway'd onto
FidoNet as an Echo or mailing-list... he should find out how to get it.
(Try asking the folks who post to comp.os.linux with return addresses
 ending in "*.fidonet.org", eh?)  ...or tell him to get Waffle 1.65 and
 a *real* newsfeed.

Has anyone ever wondered why there aren't any newsgroups which begin
with "fido.*"?  I mean, if FidoNet has all these neat-0 "echoes", then
why aren't they gateway'd into Usenet Newsgroups???  Why are the "news"
feeds between Usenet and FidoNet always one-way, Usenet-->FidoNet, hmmm?

BitNet stuff gets gated into Usenet news... so why not FidoNet?
(...not that I want it.  Blech!  What a mess.)

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