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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Netnews (rn) from Mac?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 17:14:24 GMT
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In article <32803@cup.portal.com> drew@cup.portal.com (Andrew E Wade) 
writes:
> I'd like to read netnews from a mac <...>
> I think I remember reading here about two ways to do this:
>   -hypercard stack (from Apple?)
>   -commercial product from someone?

There is a netnews hypercard stack, which I am using at this very moment. 
Basically quite nice, though of course a bit slow. Probably available from 
sumex-aim.stanford.edu, though I got my copy from a local source.

InterCon Systems offers a commercial product: TCP/Connect II for the Apple 
Macintosh. In addition to a newsreader, it comes with telnet, ftp, and 
mail. It uses MacTCP, but does not presently support the communications 
toolbox. It lists for about $500 and they offer a 30% academic discount. 
It's expensive, but sounds really nice. We're thinking of buying it. Does 
anybody have any experience with it?

Russell Owen
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu
Astronomy Dept. FM-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195