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From: brad@cs.utexas.edu (blumenthal @ home with the armadillos)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: how to get readnews
Keywords: read news
Message-ID: <396@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 89 14:01:46 GMT
References: <18896@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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There is a newsgroup called pubnet.nixpub which lists public access
unix machines around the country, along with pertinent information 
about what services they provide and how much (if any) they charge.
It is updated periodically; the current version has one entry
for Pittsburgh:

06/07  412-431-8649   eklektik    Pittsburg           PA  3/12     24
  UNIX PC- SYSV - UNaXcess BBS, new system - donation requested for shell,
  login: bbs for BBS, uucp-mail, limited Usenet news feeds.  Gaming SIGS.
  Contact:  ...!gatech!emoryu1!eklektik!anthony
 
The first line is the date this entry was last updated, the phone number
of the system, the name of the system, the location, the baud rates
it supports (300/1200) and the hours of operation (24/day).  The rest 
indicates that the system provides mail, limited news, and some general
bbs services.  Apparently, they would like some money if you plan to
use the unix shell (I assume this means for mail and news as well, but
not for local bbs stuff).  To contact the sysop (system operator) by
email from the Internet, you can try 
gatech!emoryu1!elkeltik!anthony@uunet.uu.net, although since gatech
(Georgia Tech) is an internet site, emoryu1!ekliktik!anthony@gatech.edu
would probably work as well.

Take care,
brad

Brad Blumenthal  CS Dept.  University of Texas   uucp: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!brad