On 2019 Mar 01 15:21:26, you wrote to All:

 Dm> So I am totally lost with Fidonet here.  I managed to get fsxNet up and
 Dm> running with relative ease, but this Fidonet stuff is throwing me for a
 Dm> loop.  They assigned me a node number, but that was about it.  Have no
 Dm> ideas where to pull echoes from, nodelists, etc. anything.

why not ask jeff smith if he has any recommendations? which ever net you were
placed in you'll need to poll its /0 at least once a week to pick up any
possible routed netmail waiting there...

as for a feed, you are free to get your echos and FDNs from any system you can
set up an agreement with... i offered (and did) help to get you pointed in the
right direction to get a number and i'll also offer to provide you a feed of
echos and FDNs... you have my email address 

 Dm> Not even 100% sure how having Fidonet and fsxNet together won't
 Dm> clobber one another (assuming the zones keep that all straighted out?)

assuming that you keep them separated by groups, you should not have any
problems...

 Dm> Anyone out there willing to help understand where to go from here?

sure 

 Dm> To be fair, back in the 80s and 90s this whole Fidonet thing was
 Dm> confusing as well!

i've been in fidonet since about a year (i think) before policy 4 was presented
 and adopted... it was only confusing then because the software wasn't as
nicely put together as today's solutions... but we were also trying to use
quickBBS tools with remoteaccess and were apparently missing something that
another new tool rectified 

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