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  • Configuring synchronet BBS with fsxNet Usenet groups

    From Errol Casey to All on Tue Jul 9 18:07:18 2024
    I'm working on configuring my bbs which uses synchronet, to receive
    usenet groups from fsxNet.

    Avon has configured my access. I can commuicate with areafix and add/remove groups.

    I just cannot seem to get the message area/sub-boards/echolist all configured, correctly :-(

    Would love some assistance. Maybe sample sbbsecho.ini examples, etc.
    to be able to pull in the usenet groups.

    TIA
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Thu Jul 11 12:44:52 2024
    On 09 Jul 2024 at 06:07p, Errol Casey pondered and said...

    I'm working on configuring my bbs which uses synchronet, to receive
    usenet groups from fsxNet.

    Avon has configured my access. I can commuicate with areafix and add/remove groups.

    I just cannot seem to get the message area/sub-boards/echolist all configured, correctly :-(

    Would love some assistance. Maybe sample sbbsecho.ini examples, etc.
    to be able to pull in the usenet groups.

    Just to add to this, if there's a newsgroup say misc.test and it's sent with an echomail tag of MISC.TEST then what was happening was Errol's system would reply but use an echomail tag like MISCTEST ... so not the correct echomail tag... so it's just showing him how to ensure his system sends the correct echomail tags back... as I'm not a Synchronet sysop I'm not much help I'm sorry.

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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to AVON on Thu Jul 11 10:24:00 2024
    Just to add to this, if there's a newsgroup say misc.test and it's sent with a
    echomail tag of MISC.TEST then what was happening was Errol's system would reply but use an echomail tag like MISCTEST ... so not the correct echomail tag... so it's just showing him how to ensure his system sends the correct echomail tags back... as I'm not a Synchronet sysop I'm not much help I'm sorry.

    Thanks! I was not sure how to offer help but this points me in the right direction. I have now responded to his crossposted query in one of the synchronet support echos.


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