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Ärende: FidoNews 28:33 [06/08]: Answers Of The Week
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                            ANSWERS OF THE WEEK
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     Fidonet Email Addresses

     Last week, I asked the question:
       Do the Fidonet Internet email addresses still work, and how do you
       use them?

     Several people offered answers.  Janis wrote in with the following,
     which both describes how it worked, and why it isn't quite so simple
     anymore:

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     > Re: FidoNews 28:32 [06/09]: Question Of The Week
     > By: Richard Webb to FidoNews Robot on Sun Aug 07 2011 04:46 pm

     >> Have a look at your nodelist for entries called uucp in your
     nodelist.
     >> Your rc carries them for the region and his net,
     >> but he's no longer pots.  SOme are however, I use one.  Then
     extrapolate
     >> from your nodelist who the uucp entry of
     >> interest belongs to, contact the operator for any terms and
     >> conditions, then fire away once you've determined the "rules of the
     road"
     >> as it were.

     >That sounds a bit complicated.  I thought the addresses were supposed
     to "just
     > work" whereby if someone emailed the Internet mail address it was
     gated to
     > netmail.

     There was a time when they did, because we had "one" system that dealt
     with
     gateing mail to uucp.  Here's some text from Randy Bush regarding
     email from
     around the time when that was the case:

     =====cut here=======
     There are gateways between FidoNet and the uucp network, and thereby
     the
     Internet.  FidoNet is addressable from the Internet DNS universe via
     the DNS
     zone fidonet.org.  A FidoNet node e.g. 1:105/42 has the domainized
     name
     f6.n105.z1.fidonet.org.  Gating is done almost exclusively via the
     uucp
     network.  The MX forwarders for the fidonet.org zone are set up such
     that there
     is default forwarding for all FidoNet hosts should there be no gateway
     which is
     local to the target host.

     The correct RFC822 address for a FidoNet power user at point
     zo:ne/no.po is
     user@Ppo.Fno.Nne.Zzo.FIDONET.ORG.  For example,

         randy.bush@p0.f42.n105.z1.fidonet.org

     And, as points are optional in FidoNet, Jane User at the BBS user at
     node
     zone:net/node is user@Fnode.Nnet.Zzone.FIDONET.ORG.  For example,

         lisa.gronke@f6.n105.z1.fidonet.org

     =======cut here======



     That connection is gone now due to problems with spam and general
     misuse.  I
     remember way back using the gateway, and making sure that no lists
     were
     subscrbed to, etc.  Some other people weren't so considerate of the
     gate
     though.

     I spoke with Jame Clay about fidonet.net, and Jame said the following:

     ===Cut here===
     JK>> was wondering whether people can still use
     JK>> fidonet addresses in email.

     JC>They may be able to, but it depends...
     JC>There used to be a single gateway but
     JC>that went away long ago due to spam.  Now it's only configured by
     request
     JC>for any particular fidonet  address.   It'll be a bit before I can
     look
     JC>such info up (unless I also having something at my gmail accout.
     I'll
     jc>check.) , as I'm in the middle of moving to a different setup for
     mail
     JC>servers and, for instance, I haven't imported all of my existing
     email in to
     JC>the new server.

     JK>> I was wondering if you'd write a brief article about that for the
     snooze?
     JK>>fidonet.net is still alive, isn't it?

     JC>Well, yes;  but it's fidonet.org that's for email <-> netmail.  I'm
     set up
     JC>to handle it for my region, for instance.  (Though I'll admit I
     haven't
     JC>actually tested it for awhile...)

     JC>I do admin the z1.fidonet.net domains, but that's primarily for use
     with
     JC>BinkP connects.  (Though I do also set up things like MX & domiains
     for web
     JC>sites as well, since I'm admin'ing the dns anyway...)
     ===cut here


     So, what one would do is check in your region for a UUCP gateway (I
     believe
     your RC is one, Gary) and ask him to set up an MX record for your
     node.  Then
     you can use that gateway.

     Region12: Net 229:
     ,2,UUCP,Toronto_ON,UUCP,1-905-275-9426,9600,CM,XX,INA:
     bbs.darkrealms.ca,IBN
     Net 250:
     ,8,Net_250_UUCP_Gateway,Toronto_ON,Frank_Linhares,000-0-0
     -0-0,9600,CM,MO,GUUCP

     Region13: Net 109:
     ,41,Internet_Email_Gateway,Wheaton_MD,Andrew_Miller,1-301-949-5764,
     9600,CM,XR,V32b,V42

     Region18: Net 3624: ,1000,netmail<->email_gate,Central_N C_USA,UUCP,
     1-919-774-5930,33600, XA,V34,ICM,
     ITN,IBN:wpusa.dynip.com,IVM,PING,U,UUCP
     Region19: 1:19/5:
     ,5,R19_Internet_Gate,AR_LA_OK_TX,UUCP,1-601-553-3671,33600,CM,XA,V34
     ,V42b,GUUCP Hub,500,Tulsa_Main_Hub,GlenPool_Ok,Carl_Arnett,000-0-0-0-
     0,300,CM,XR,GUUCP,INA: onguardbbs.com,ITN,IFT

     Net 170:
     ,3,Internet_Gateway_Net396,Meridian_MS,Postmaster,000-0-0-0-0,300,CM,
     XA,INA:173.10.197.77,ITN,IBN,IFT,GUUCP


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