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From: Paul.Jacoby@p4.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Paul Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Off line newsreader
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Date: 15 Mar 90 22:14:09 GMT
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 jjw7384@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko) writes:

 >I was wondering if anyone had ever gotten around to writing an off-line
 >newsreader for the Mac. I have seen many off-line mail readers for 
 >the PC world, and I keep thinking how nice it would be to download all
 >unread news articles, read them at my leisure, compose followups and
 >mailed replies, then have the mac call the unix box back to update the
 >.newsrc and post/send the articles.

I am replying to your message via the program "Jabberwocky" which is an quasi-point package designed for use with QuickBBS bulletin boards and the QMS/XRS system.  Our local Fidonet monolith (Mac's Smorgasboard) has a link to Usenet (see origin line below) and feeds us with comp.sys.mac and a number of other Usenet areas.
  Jabberwocky makes reading several hundred messages more like fun and less like work.  Probably not the direct route you are interested in, but worth mentioning.
  Jabberwocky is $20 shareware from Eric Larson.

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Paul Jacoby - via FidoNet node 1:282/33
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