Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bbn!bbn.com!levin
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Off line newsreader
Message-ID: <53727@bbn.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 17:09:38 GMT
References: <36.2600D6EE@imagery.FIDONET.ORG>
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Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin)
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In article <36.2600D6EE@imagery.FIDONET.ORG> Paul.Jacoby@p4.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Paul Jacoby) writes:
|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.

Too bad it doesn't do 80-column lines for you.
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