On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:05:21 +0000
"MarcL" (VERT) <VERT!MarcL@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
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> "Digital Man" <digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-prp-this> wrote in
> news:65CC333C.51275.sync@vert.synchro.net:
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> > To: MarcL
> > Re: Re: FidoNet News Gate
> > By: MarcL to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Feb 14 2024 01:40 am
> >
> > > > The important thing to understand is that the SYNCHRONET echo on
> > > > FidoNet and the alt.bbs.synchronet newsgroup are already gated
> > > > to each other (here on Vertrauen). If you're going to use
> > > > Newsgate to gate alt.bbs.synchronet to FTN, it's important that
> > > > it gets distributed via FTN with an echo-tag *other* than
> > > > SYNCHRONET. I have no objection so long as that's understood.
> > >
> > > It's limited distribution (as far as I know) in Region 19 as
> > > "ALT-BBS-SYNCHRONET". (Note there are no dots as my old Squish
> > > tosser (under OS/2) can't handle echo names with dots in them.
> >
> > Okay, sounds good to me then.
>
> Okay, I'll link it only to BBSes in R19 that aren't running
> Synchronet software... would be 'kinda redundant to link to them. <g>

You know that this group is shared as SYNCHRONET on Fido, so you're
already providing it to your downlinks. Seems like duplicate effort?
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Hello All.

<On 15Feb2024 12:07 nelgin wrote a message to All regarding Re: FidoNet News
Gate >
[snip]
> > > It's limited distribution (as far as I know) in Region 19 as
> > > "ALT-BBS-SYNCHRONET". (Note there are no dots as my old Squish
> > > tosser (under OS/2) can't handle echo names with dots in them.
> >
> > Okay, sounds good to me then.
>
> Okay, I'll link it only to BBSes in R19 that aren't running
> Synchronet software... would be 'kinda redundant to link to them. <g>

n> You know that this group is shared as SYNCHRONET on Fido, so you're
n> already providing it to your downlinks. Seems like duplicate effort?

It may in fact be a duplicate effort in the case of the SYNCHRONET echo, but it
is not the only newsgroup that I offer to those that aren't running a system
with a built-in newsgroup system. As I mentioned before I'm certainly not
trying to step on anyone's (Digitalman) toes by offering it as an echo. I
believe, as I said before, that I've eliminated the unfortunate duplicate
message posting problem so as NOT annoy others in the actual newsgroup.

Best regards,
Marc

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> It may in fact be a duplicate effort in the case of the SYNCHRONET echo, but
> it is not the only newsgroup that I offer to those that aren't running a
> system with a built-in newsgroup system. As I mentioned before I'm certainly
> not trying to step on anyone's (Digitalman) toes by offering it as an echo.
> I believe, as I said before, that I've eliminated the unfortunate duplicate
> message posting problem so as NOT annoy others in the actual newsgroup.

I have not seen any dupes since the original batch, so I think you did fix it.

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Re: Re: FidoNet News Gate
By: Dumas Walker to Marc Lewis on Sat Feb 17 2024 03:09 pm

> > It may in fact be a duplicate effort in the case of the SYNCHRONET echo,
> > but it is not the only newsgroup that I offer to those that aren't
> > running a system with a built-in newsgroup system. As I mentioned before
> > I'm certainly not trying to step on anyone's (Digitalman) toes by
> > offering it as an echo. I believe, as I said before, that I've eliminated
> > the unfortunate duplicate message posting problem so as NOT annoy others
> > in the actual newsgroup.
>
>
> I have not seen any dupes since the original batch, so I think you did
>
>
> fix
> it.
>
> #

They should just mainstream fidonet and eliminate the dead echos and keep
a handful of the essential ones instead of expanding it or artificially populating it with msgs from other sources.

i remember years ago they were doing this with some active newsgroups that didn't even know they were being gated to fidonet.

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"Dumas Walker" <dumas.walker@CAPCITY2.remove-hei-this> wrote in
news:65D11267.70435.sync@capcity2.synchro.net:

> To: Marc Lewis
> > It may in fact be a duplicate effort in the case of the SYNCHRONET
> > echo, but it is not the only newsgroup that I offer to those that
> > aren't running a system with a built-in newsgroup system. As I
> > mentioned before I'm certainly not trying to step on anyone's
> > (Digitalman) toes by offering it as an echo. I believe, as I said
> > before, that I've eliminated the unfortunate duplicate message
> > posting problem so as NOT annoy others in the actual newsgroup.
>
>
> I have not seen any dupes since the original batch, so I think you did
> fix it.
>

Have you seen any dupe messages today (20Feb24)?
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> > I have not seen any dupes since the original batch, so I think you did
> > fix it.

> Have you seen any dupe messages today (20Feb24)?

No I have not noticed any, yesterday (20th) or today.

If they were exact dupes, and not reprocessed messages, Synchronet may have
filtered them out.

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"Dumas Walker" <dumas.walker@CAPCITY2.remove-mbw-this> wrote in
news:65D60C4F.70482.sync@capcity2.synchro.net:

> To: MARCL
>> > I have not seen any dupes since the original batch, so I think you
>> > did fix it.
>
>> Have you seen any dupe messages today (20Feb24)?
>
> No I have not noticed any, yesterday (20th) or today.
>
> If they were exact dupes, and not reprocessed messages, Synchronet may
> have filtered them out.
>
>
> * SLMR 2.1a * It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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It's Sunday the 25th... Have any dupes shown up since your last post?
(Hopefully not!!)
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> It's Sunday the 25th... Have any dupes shown up since your last post?
> (Hopefully not!!)

Nope, still have not seen any. ;)

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