Introduction

WaterGate is a message processing system. It can handle netmail and echomail in FidoNet Technology (FTN) format and Internet e-mail and Usenet news in several formats. It can distribute the messages in any of the supported formats and gate the messages between the different formats.

Message "processing" means WaterGate does not do transfers, but processes files instead. Speaking in FidoNet terminology, it is a tosser that can handle Internet and Usenet as well.

As far as Internet and Usenet are concerned, WaterGate can process files (jobs) in UUCP, SMTP and BAG format. UUCP is the core protocol that WaterGate is based on and is used to transfer e-mail and news.

The terms FidoNet and UUCP will be used to differentiate between the two systems. FidoNet refers to both netmail and echomail, where UUCP refers to both Internet e-mail and Usenet news.

Features

Compatible with

Requirements

To operate effectively, you probably need a FidoNet compatible mailer such as FrontDoor or BinkleyTerm. Also, if you want to exchange mail with the UUCP mechanism, a program such as UUCICO or the faster FX-UUCICO is needed. These programs should be available on any large BBS or FTP site.

We would like to thank the following users for testing the beta versions of WaterGate, finding bugs, sending problem reports and test files, and making suggestions for improvements:

Miguel Lupi Alves, Mitchell Baker, Anthony Barlow, Gerrit Brinkman, Christian von Busse, Glen Chambers, Thomas Charron, Troy Engel, Richard Fairhead, Sue Fairhead, Frans van Geene, Guus Goos, Christopher Henderson, John Halbig, Erik Kolodziej, Phill McKenna, Jim Meijer, Steve Milstead, John Mudge, Pete Rocca, Bob Ross, Jan Ruys, Robert Stark, Peter van der Steen, Joop Stokvis, Pat Trainor, Michel Voorn, Rene Vreeman, Remco Vrolijk, Rob Waite, Jurgen van der Wilk.

and anybody else who we forgot to mention!
Special thanks to Rob Szarka of Brazerko Communications in the USA.

Explicit NO thanks to Jon Greaves and Colin Taylor for disappearing as credit card sites, without telling us.


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Last updated 13 October 1996