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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Netnews (rn) from Mac?
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.113107.3221@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 16 Aug 90 11:31:07 GMT
References: <32803@cup.portal.com> <6349@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging
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In article <6349@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>In article <32803@cup.portal.com> drew@cup.portal.com (Andrew E Wade) 
>writes:
>> I'd like to read netnews from a mac (which, incidentally, is connected
>> via a gatorbox and gatorshare to ethernet with news server).
>> I think I remember reading here about two ways to do this:
>>   -hypercard stack (from Apple?)
>>   -commercial product from someone?
>
>There is indeed a hypercard stack. Netnews reader 1.2. It has some 
>limitations, mostly intrinsic to hypercard -- it's slow (but quite 
>reasonable on the faster Macs), doesn't handle gigantic (>32k) messages 
>gracefully, and once in a great while it rejects or hangs on a reply or 
>posting. But it has many very nice features, and most of the time is 
>trouble-free. It's probably available via anonymous ftp from 
>sumex-aim.stanford.edu, but I'm not sure.
>
>InterCon Systems Corp. 703-709-9890, offers a commercial product which 
>reads news, handles mail, and has ftp and telnet. It's called TCP/Connect 
>II, and lists for $500. We're considering buying it. Does anybody have any 
>experience with it? It seem very expensive, but if it's well written maybe 
>it'd be worth the cost.
>
>Some details I got by calling InterCon: they offer a 30% academic 
>discount, the program uses MacTCP but does not yet use the communications 
>toolbox (they're working on that). The mail software talks to a POP2 
>server (but they're working on POP3). The upgrade policy sounds very 
>reasonable.
>
>Russell Owen
>owen@raven.phys.washington.edu
>Astronomy Dept. FM-20
>University of Washington
>Seattle, WA  98195





  I have been using TCP/Connect II, and I am generally pleased with it. 
There seem to still be a few bugs in the program, but it is light years 
ahead of the hypercard stack based alternatives.  I would definately
reccommend it, but the price is a little high......






			Mike Bell



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