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Article #433Re: fidonet <-> usenet
From: jbs
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1987 05:00
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1987 05:00
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In article <18304@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: >In the referenced article, Jacob Gore <gore@nucsrl.UUCP> writes: >>The whole beauty of Internet addresses (as I see it) is that they hide the >>networking details.[...] >[...]Among the problems with the idea >is that the existing hostnames from the FidoNet nodelist will not work >on the UUCP network or the ARPA Internet, which means that each FidoNet >host would have to pick a new name. The existance of a working, transparant, bidirectional, gateway between UUCP and FidoNet (is that the correct capitalization?) would allow, but not require, any FidoNet host to register with UUCP for both a domain and a map entry. Such a gateway would translate low-level (i.e. bang format) UUCP addresses into Fido addresses. In a sense, FidoNet would become part of UUCP, similar to the way notes sites exist on Usenet. Jeff Siegal
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!jbs From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: fidonet <-> usenet Message-ID: <5486@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 00:00:35 EST Article-I.D.: eddie.5486 Posted: Tue Apr 14 00:00:35 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 03:13:58 EST References: <149@4gl.UUCP> <3380002@nucsrl.UUCP> <18304@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jbs@eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal) Distribution: world Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17