Excuse late answer, please ...   
      
    MB> gate some echos. I'm useing Blackhole as my gateing software.   
      
   Not that good. You will come in trouble with some large feeds when running   
   this software. I used it years ago to gate from/to MxBBSNet (zone 256) and   
   some privat nets. AFAIR it doesn't introduce a new msgid for gated messages.   
   As a result those messages will be identified as dupes with almost any tosser   
   except Squish when a system carries both echoes.   
      
    MB> I setup a .1 and a .2 for my points for the echos that I wanted to   
    MB> gate   
      
    MB> EchoArea  Z_ADS D:\RENEGADE\ECHOMAIL\Z_ADS  -p92:606/0 92:606/0.2   
    MB> 606/0.1 318/0 401/0 405/0   
      
   You need to setup two different echoes. See later.   
      
    MB> my route.cfg file for those.   
      
    MB> Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.1   
    MB> Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.2   
      
   hm.   
      
   Your route.cfg should not include noarc, direct flavor is recommendable.   
      
   Here the way I did it (and still run such a gate but not with blackhole).   
      
   I introduced a new archiver for Squish and used movepkt.exe (AFAIR included in   
   blackhole package) to move packets for those "gate points" into specific   
   inbounds.   
      
      
   compress.cfg:   
    Gateway FIDO <-> MxBBSNet   
   Archiver GFM   
          Ident           0,777777   
   OS2    Add             c:\bbs\bhole\movpkt2 H:\out\fidomx %a %f   
   end archiver   
      
   squish.cfg:   
   Pack GFM 2:2476/14.989   
   Pack GFM 256:256/4.989   
      
    example for one echo without further links listed   
   EchoArea MUFFIN G:\mail\fido\MUFFIN -$m100 -$d200 2:24/903 2:2476.989   
   EchoArea MUFFIN.256 G:\mail\mxbbs\muffin2 -p256:256/4.0 -$ 256:256/4.989   
      
   Ensure to have your nodes included in your forwardfrom / forwardto statements.   
      
   For blackhole I used following cfg:   
      
   ==== Begin import fidomx.cfg ====   
    Aka_1     2:2476/14.989@fidonet   
    Origin_1  FidoNet <-> MxBBSNet EchoGate I   
      
    Aka_2    256:256/4.989@MxBBSNet   
    Origin_2  MxBBSNet <-> FidoNet EchoGate I   
      
    This is the path to your netmail area.   
      
    NetMail   F:\mail\Net   
      
    This is the path to you inbound packet(s) area:   
      
    In_Pkt    D:\in   
      
    This is the path to your outbound packet(s) area:   
      
    Out_Pkt   H:\Out\fidomx\   
      
   Areas   
   MAXIMUS.MEX.GER      MAXIMUS.MEX.GER.256   
   CANTALOUP.GER CANTALOUP.GER.256   
   FLEETBETA     FLEETBETA.256   
   BTEEBETA      BTEEBETA.256   
   APWORKS   APWORKS.256   
   ARTWARE   ARTWARE.256   
   MAXDEV    MAXDEV.256   
   MECCA     MECCA.256   
   MUFFIN    MUFFIN.256   
   TUB       TUB.256   
   SQED32.GER SQED32.256   
      
   ==== End imported file ====   
      
   Hope to not to be too late and that those hints are of help for you. :-)   
      
   cu, Dieter   
      
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