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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac netnews stack -- free or thru A
Message-ID: <39558@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 90 05:49:42 GMT
References: <615@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <32300029@inmet>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <32300029@inmet> dvb@inmet.inmet.com writes:

>1.  Buy MacTCP from Apple.  (Individual or site--no problem.  Is it big $$?)

$100 individual or  $1000 site license.

>2.  Get Harry Chesley's NetNews Reader Stack for HyperCard.
>	(OK.  Free?  Great.  How can it bo obtained?  We don't
>	 have ftp right now.  Any way to order it or receive it?)

Available via anonymous ftp from apple.com, or from APDA.

>3.  NNTP Server.  (What is this?  This resides on the news host?
>	 This handles the host file access?  And where does this
>	 piece come from?  Apple?  Host specific stuff?  Cost?)

NNTP resides on the news host and is the protocol that the netnews
reader stack uses to retrieve messages.  I imagine the implementation
will depend upon the news host; a VMS host will have different software
than SysV than 4.3BSD than...  Again, available via ftp from all the
usual places, via a 900 number from uunet.uu.net, etc.  See
comp.archives for a list of likely places.

--Brian Bechtel		blob@apple.com		"my opinions, not Apple's"