Re: why

[aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

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.

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