
I have this visual image of you right now.....at some point,
you decided to ignore me and you jumped right into the
configurations of all the utilities without letting me finish
helping you.  You don't have any knowledge of Fido, you don't
want to carry Fido, and you don't want to learn about Fido.

Well, too bad.  My feelings are hurt now that you've tried to
ignore me.  I tried to tell you in the beginning to read through
all of this before you tried jumping off the cliff.  Do you
really expect me to try and save you now?  ESAD!

<later>  Whew, I don't know what got into me.....I'm not usually
like that.  I'm going to give you another chance to redeem
yourself.

The subject of addresses was a tough nut for me to crack.  It
would take a bug-free Pentium to track the number of different
combinations of addresses I tried before anything started to
work.  I don't want you to have to go through that.  I don't
want to see you bleeding from the ears.  Really, I don't.

For a simple setup, like mine, you're only going to need two
addresses.  Forget what some of the documentation says about
"real" addresses, "your" addresses, "fake" addresses, and all
that rot.  I want you to get real intimate with two addresses
and *only* two:

1.)  Gateway address
2.)  Your address

Now, let's look at some of the logic behind this two-address
scheme:

The "Gateway address" is really nothing more than a fictitious
address that acts as the "door" into and out of your system.
When you want to get a message into the outside world, you
just need to send it to the first destination and then the
people at that first destination will take care of getting
it the rest of the way.  Conversely, when a message is on its
way into your system, it needs to go through a "gateway" before
it ultimately gets into your message base.  So, we're going to
dream up a fictitious address and we're going to call it our
"gateway address".  Simple enough.  *Don't* make anything
sinister out of or it will eat your lunch.

The "Your address" is also nothing more than a fictitious
address that we need to use.  All of the utilities we are
using in this process have to use this "address" logic
because they all deal with Fido addressing.  I don't want you
to have to worry about Fido addressing.  I just want you to
follow my lead and then forget about it.

You are going to start to see my configuration files in following
readme files.  Since the "gateway" and "your" addresses are all
fictitious and don't mean a darn thing to the outside world,
you are hereby granted permission to use the exact addresses
that I came up with.  Why not, I stole them from someone else!

My "Gateway address" is 1:328/1.0.
My "Your address" is 1:328/104.

If you want to dream up your own addresses, that's fine with me.
Just be *very* careful and make sure you change every incident
of the particular addresses within all of the configuration files.
That's going to be hard to do so I suggest you just use the ones
I use.

If you try to go in and understand the different parts of all the
documentation files that accompany the assorted utilities, you
will probably just end up frustrated.  Just FORGET all that
nonsense and listen to me.  You will praise my name when all of
this is over, I promise you.  (Donations are accepted)

Okay, you're licking your chops at the thought of working with
all of those configuration files.  Personally, if the thought
of doing that excites you, I think you're sick.  However, go on
to the next readme file and we'll get started.....you perverts.





