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- From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
- Subject: Re: why
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.225045.13074@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Reply-To: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
- Organization: The National Capital Freenet
- References: <L3gZXB2w165w@lablues.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:50:45 GMT
- Lines: 75
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- In a previous article, larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider) says:
-
- > A) What is "FIDO?"
- > 2) What is "UUCP?"
- > c) What is the "backbone?" What is a "gateway?"
- > iv) Why can people get to me and me not get back?
- > Why would some of my E-mail not bounce back????
- > e) Why would anything bounce back anyway? My "posts"
- > like this one seem to get "out!" Solipsisim aside,
- > I know that Marc exists since he has re-sent the
- > file I requested. (Thanks Marc! I got the other
- > too.)
-
- FIDO is an acronym that comes from coin-collecting - "Freaks, Irregulars,
- Defects, and Oddities". This gives you an idea what the creators of FIDONet
- had in mind when they set up the system of amateur BBSes that exchange "news"
- articles (echoes) and email (netmail).
-
- UUCP is an abbreviation for "Unix-to-Unix-CoPy", the suite of files included
- with most implementations of Unix (but not GNO yet B-/ ) that allows exchange
- of files and information between sites. "UUCP site" usually refers to a
- machine with Internet email / Usenet news capabilities, but which is not
- physically connected to the Internet; such machines move information by
- calling each other on the phone. Micor in my .sig is a UUCP-only site, as
- is presumably LABlues.
-
- The backbone on FIDONet refers to the group of echoes that are carried over
- the entire network - the Apple Echo, for instance. This is equivalent to
- any worldwide-distribution (non-"alt") newsgroup on Usenet.
-
- Gateways (this is the part you were waiting for) allow different networks
- to share information (email in particular). Mailing an internet message to
- FOOBAR@aol.com or foo.bar@compuserve.com would make use of a gateway.
-
- >InterNet: larry@lablues.UUCP
- >FidoNet: 1:132/300 Larry Schneider
-
- Since you have a FIDO account, you should be able to send mail to the
- Internet. Note that this may cost your sysop money! Instructions follow:
-
- To send mail to a FIDO address from an INTERNET address, follow these
- rules:
-
- 1. Change the person's name to have no spaces (Jane Doe becomes
- Jane_Doe)
- 2. the fidonet<>internet address is this:
- example: 1:343/95 would be f95.n343.z1.fidonet.org
- (f{3rd#}.n{2nd}.z{1st}) where 3,2,1 = #'s in fidonet address
-
- For Jane Doe, 1:343/300 would be jane_doe@f300.n343.z1.fidonet.org.
- You can also send to a point by placing "pXXX" before the "fYYY" in the
- address, where XXX is the point number.
-
- To send from FIDOnet to the Internet, you need to find a gateway on
- FIDO. One exists at 1:114/15.
-
- 1. Send a message to "uucp" at that node.
- 2. The first line of the message should be the Internet address
- username@site.domain
- followed by 2 returns.
- 3. Line 4 onward is the message body.
-
- Hope that helps.
-
- --
- Marc Sira |
- toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca | "Your god drinks...p-p-peach nectar!"
- aa382@freenet.carleton.ca '
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