On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:08:20 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote :
From his address, he is accessing using a Fidonet <--> Usenet gateway.
It is possible the gateway is not working properly.
Interesting, Fidonet seems to be still active in Russia.
Thanks for looking at that information, which I presume you gathered from
the OP's headers. I don't see any headers unless I go to the trouble to dig
for them. I don't even see whom I'm responding to, unless I look at the attribution line that is auto generated by my 'newsreader' scripts.
It's kind of why I respond to everyone by what value they write.
I don't respond to them by who they are (so I'm egalitarian that way).
Back to your point, I haven't heard of "Fidonet" in years myself.
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet>
"While the use of FidoNet has dropped dramatically compared
with its use up to the mid-1990s, it is still used in many
countries and especially Russia and former republics of the USSR"
Since the OP asked about "Echo", I found this in that wiki article:
"By far the most commonly used of these piggyback protocols
was Echomail, public discussions similar to Usenet newsgroups
in nature... Echomail was so popular that for many users,
Echomail was the FidoNet."
I never heard of "echomail" but it seems similar to Google Groups.
Just as Google Groups stopped its gateway to Usenet, I suspect, based only
on what the OP wrote, that FidoNet EchoMail stopped it's gateway also.
Then again, maybe not as the OP seems to have posted to this newsgroup.
Digging into the logs to find the OP's headers, I see the (reverse) path:
!not-for-mail
!fidogate
!p700.f700.n50.z2.fidonet.org.ru
!f128.n5075.z2.fidonet.org.ru
!usenet.network
So the only thing I can surmise from that PATH: is that the OP sent his
message through "fidogate" from, apparently, as you surmised, Russia.
I'm guessing now that "Fidogate" is a "FidoNet-to-Usenet gateway" and that
"z2" indicates zone 2, which is typically associated with Russia
"n50" is the network number.
"f700" is the node number.
"p700" is the point number.
Same thing with "!f128.n5075.z2.fidonet.org.ru".
Unless spoofed, the ".fidonet.org.ru" portion reinforces that this is
likely a FidoNet address within the Russian domain.
Thanks for pointing that out to us, as I don't usually look at headers.
I generally only care about the gift of the body (not the wrapping paper).
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