Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Looking for a Mac news reader Message-ID: <1990Apr9.005933.6217@intercon.com> Date: 9 Apr 90 00:59:33 GMT References: <15642@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1990Apr5.194010.4207@intercon.com> <21713@cs.yale.edu> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 23 In article <21713@cs.yale.edu>, kauffman-jon@CS.YALE.EDU (Jon Kauffman) writes: > > I'd love to see a leaner, tty-window implementation of rrn using the NCSA or > MacTCP stuff, but I suppose lots of us would. (I guess I should stop > whining and start coding :-) ) NNTP makes a working-but-not-optimal > rrn pretty straightforward (or at least I thought so when I wrote a !very! > sub-optimal one a few years ago), so eager coders shouldn't be > frightened. It's actually a good way to get one's feet wet in > text-based communication protocols like SMTP and FTP. > Why have a tty-window implementation of rrn when you can have a full fledged Mac interface version? Our commercial version does just that. If you are going to do a tty-window implementation why waste your time, just login with telnet..:-) You get the same "features" that way. Our stuff allows you to click on groups see the index, click on a note and see the contents of it. All with the ability to edit text just as you would on a Mac... In fact this is being posted with it. Take care. Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation--