On 12-08-30 1:49 PM, mark lewis wrote:   
      
   > i dunno... i realized some time back that this echo was being gated and   
   that's   
   > why they were coming back... i get the same thing with messages that get   
   posted   
   > to newsgroups... this is how folks can make sure their post actually made it   
   > thru the gate...   
      
   I realize now that I should have done proper zone gating between fidonet    
   and scinet, problem is that I came up with that theory after creating    
   different echo's for each network.   
      
   > but there is a big difference between the gates and their methods, though...   
   if   
   > i try to respond via netmail to a message that has come thru your gate, it   
   gets   
   > addressed to the user at your system... even if the user doesn't have an   
   > account on your system... and so the private netmail reply doesn't make it   
   back   
   > thru the gate and on to the destination...   
      
   That's because this is gated via NNTP.  I do see the proper formatting    
   for fidonet's fqdn but i believe that internet to fidonet gates died a    
   very long time agi.   
      
   > in other words, if i try to netmail myself from one of my returned messages   
   > thru your gate, my netmail would go to your machine, get gated to that other   
   > network and then regated back to fidonet addressed to me at my fidonet   
   > address... my gating software is GIGO and GIGO calls this fastreturn and   
   forces   
   > it for fidonet traffic... GIGO forces it to eliminates the double gating   
   unless   
   > you are in more than one domain like rbbsnet and you need to send mail from   
   > rbbsnet.net to fidonet.org or whatever... i've included at the bottom of this   
   > message the comments from the GIGO configs concerning this... i know that   
   many   
   > things have changed since then... especially the fidonet domain as well as   
   > loosing other domains...   
   >   
   > from what others and myself have been seeing over the years and as more and   
   > more synchronet boards come into fidonet and start doing more and more   
   gating,   
   > this is a problem in synchronet but i don't know why or how it can or should   
   be   
   > handled... sadly, i don't remember how stuff should be addressed to pass   
   thru a   
   > FTN node to a QWK fed node and that adds yet another layer of complication to   
   > the whole shooting match :?   
      
   Is GIGO open source?  Is it available for Linux?  if so i'd like to give    
   it a whirl.   
      
   Funny thing about the dupes when I gated this echo a while back, they    
   were not being created by Synchronet as all synchronet did was gate this    
   echo to the bbs-scene.org NNTP server but the dupes were being created    
   by IREX which is what I used to gate it between scinet and fidonet.   
      
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