• Fidonet & Newsgroups

    From Phil@VERT/CYBERCHA to All on Monday, December 14, 2015 22:25:53
    Is all the Fidonet Echoes that is available on the Fidonet BBS systems can you get them from the internet newsgroups? If
    so, is the correct name for the echoes fido.echoname or fidonet.echoname?

    Thanks

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Phil on Monday, December 14, 2015 22:52:41
    Re: Fidonet & Newsgroups
    By: Phil to All on Mon Dec 14 2015 10:25 pm

    Is all the Fidonet Echoes that is available on the Fidonet BBS systems can you get them from the internet newsgroups? If so, is the correct name for the echoes fido.echoname or fidonet.echoname?


    nope
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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Phil on Monday, December 14, 2015 22:36:30
    Re: Fidonet & Newsgroups
    By: Phil to All on Mon Dec 14 2015 10:25 pm

    Is all the Fidonet Echoes that is available on the Fidonet BBS systems can you get them from the internet newsgroups? If so, is the correct name for the echoes fido.echoname or fidonet.echoname?

    There's no backbone of Fido echoes carried as a hierarchy on all servers, but quite a few boards carry a number of Fidonet echoes as newsgroups.

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Phil on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 08:35:00
    On 12/14/15, Phil said the following...

    Is all the Fidonet Echoes that is available on the Fidonet BBS systems can et them from the internet newsgroups? If
    so, is the correct name for the echoes fido.echoname or fidonet.echoname?

    There are a number of BBSs that have their msgbases available via a nntp
    server so you can read and write msgs from a newsreader but they are not newsgroups per say.

    There is a listing of such systems in the fidonews. Grab a copy or you can
    read it in the fidonews echo.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From ROBERT WOLFE@VERT/OTHETA to PHIL on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:46:00
    PHIL wrote to ALL <=-

    Is all the Fidonet Echoes that is available on the Fidonet BBS systems
    can you get them from the internet newsgroups? If so, is the correct
    name for the echoes fido.echoname or fidonet.echoname?

    Most likely not. If you want to use an NNTP client, any of the Synchronet
    and Wildcat! BBSes that run NNTP services (mine does) can give you NNTP newsreader access to Fidonet as well as other network echos.

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