From: mfc@medoc.aux.apple.com (Matt Caprile)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: FidoNet geneal. echo <-> Internet (soc.roots)
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:49:23 GMT
Reply-To: caprile@apple.com
Organization: Organization? I've never been organized!

If you are NOT interested in FidoNet Genealogy Echo, or TMS (Tafel
Matching System), just skip this article/post. It is fairly LONG.

If anyone on FidoNet wants to send me email, this should work :
    send to address 'uucp' at nearest gateway site
        -and-
    set the first line of the message to
                 To: caprile@apple.com

I started to quote the relevant article, but it turned out to be LONG, so
here's a 10 line recap:
* Mike.Fisher reports that soc.roots is being gated into a FidoNet
* EchoMail conference in the UK
* 
* I followed up by a question: Couldn't we set up :
*   - Gating the FidoNet EchoMail conference into a netnews newsgroup.
*   - A TMS (TinyTafel Matching Service) available on the InterNet
* 
* Mike points out that not all would like to see the 250-300 messages per
* day that often show up in the FidoNet echo. (those who read soc.roots,
* or receive ROOTS-L can relate to this).

About the FidoNet -> netnews link: It doesn't have to be gatewayed to
soc.roots/ROOTS-L.  It could be alt.fido.gene or something.  That way,
only those who wish to read/receive would do so.  Who can tell me about
FidoNet <-> InterNet gateways? There are several on the internet, since
I can send mail to fidonet, and vice-versa.

  (An aside:To send email from the InterNet to someone on FidoNet :
     If FidoNet address is     john smith at 1:2/3.4
     From InterNet, send to    john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1.fidonet.org
  End-Of-Aside)

Who out there on FidoNet would know about/want to set up a relay to
send the echo to some internet address to be relayed into an "alt"
group. (Alt newsgroups don't go thru the long "vote/revote" cycle
of the other netnews groups. On the other hand, many sites don't carry
them.) I imagine that it would be a "fake" user (automated would
probably be a better word than fake) that has subscribed to the
genealogy echo on FidoNet, and calls up to download it, and then just
mails it to an InterNet list or NetNews gateway.

Who out there on FidoNet would be willing to work with me to set
up a TMS gateway ? (Send mail to some InterNet mail address, which
should check for some coherency, and then gateway to a TMS on FidoNet
[or any BBS with TMS, i guess]. Since mail can make it back and forth,
this should work in both directions. It seems that all would gain by the
increased exchange of information. (I personnally would gain because I
hate logging in at 1200 baud, and run some stupid terminal emualator
program, and watch the pretty line noise...).

If you are interested, or have infomation about these topics (such as
gateway-ing) please send me mail. I will recap the responses.

Lastly, Mike, you said in your reply:
>However, there is at least gateway system in North America which does gate
>"soc.roots" into FidoNet - but as a distinct echo under its own "tag"
>(SOC_ROOTS, I think).

Who can I talk to about this? Can you give me some info on this ? A
name ? Or post to the echo asking for info, to be sent to me (my
"FidoNet" address is at beginning of this article).

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