Excuse late answer, please ...

 MB> gate some echos. I'm useing Blackhole as my gateing software.

Not that good. You will come in trouble with some large feeds when running
this software. I used it years ago to gate from/to MxBBSNet (zone 256) and
some privat nets. AFAIR it doesn't introduce a new msgid for gated messages.
As a result those messages will be identified as dupes with almost any tosser
except Squish.

 MB> I setup a .1 and a .2 for my points for the echos that I wanted to
 MB> gate

 MB> EchoArea  Z_ADS D:\RENEGADE\ECHOMAIL\Z_ADS  -p92:606/0 92:606/0.2
 MB> 606/0.1 318/0 401/0 405/0

You need to setup two different echoes. See later.

 MB> my route.cfg file for those.

 MB> Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.1
 MB> Send Direct NoArc 92:606/0.2

hm.

Your route.cfg should not include noarc, direct flavor is recommendable.

Here the way I did it (and still run such a gate but not with blackhole).

I introduced a new archiver for Squish and used movepkt.exe (AFAIR included in
blackhole package) to move packets for those "gate points" into specific
inbounds.


compress.cfg:
; Gateway FIDO <-> MxBBSNet
Archiver GFM
       Ident           0,777777
OS2    Add             c:\bbs\bhole\movpkt2 H:\out\fidomx %a %f
end archiver

squish.cfg:
Pack GFM 2:2476/14.989
Pack GFM 256:256/4.989

; example for one echo without further links listed
EchoArea MUFFIN G:\mail\fido\MUFFIN -$m100 -$d200 2:24/903 2:2476.989
EchoArea MUFFIN.256 G:\mail\mxbbs\muffin2 -p256:256/4.0 -$ 256:256/4.989

Ensure to have your nodes included in your forwardfrom / forwardto statements.

For blackhole I used following cfg:

==== Begin import fidomx.cfg ====
 Aka_1     2:2476/14.989@fidonet
 Origin_1  FidoNet <-> MxBBSNet EchoGate I
;
 Aka_2    256:256/4.989@MxBBSNet
 Origin_2  MxBBSNet <-> FidoNet EchoGate I
;
; This is the path to your netmail area.
;
 NetMail   F:\mail\Net
;
; This is the path to you inbound packet(s) area:
;
 In_Pkt    D:\in
;
; This is the path to your outbound packet(s) area:
;
 Out_Pkt   H:\Out\fidomx\
;
Areas
MAXIMUS.MEX.GER      MAXIMUS.MEX.GER.256
CANTALOUP.GER CANTALOUP.GER.256
FLEETBETA     FLEETBETA.256
BTEEBETA      BTEEBETA.256
APWORKS   APWORKS.256
ARTWARE   ARTWARE.256
MAXDEV    MAXDEV.256
MECCA     MECCA.256
MUFFIN    MUFFIN.256
TUB       TUB.256
SQED32.GER SQED32.256
;
==== End imported file ====

Hope to not to be too late and that those hints are of help for you. :-)

cu, Dieter

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