Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!news From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Mail, News, FTP, and Telnet question. Message-ID: <2708CF11.1452@intercon.com> Date: 2 Oct 90 17:32:01 GMT References: Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 26 In article , jim@dorm.rutgers.edu (Jim Martin) writes: > A question for you all. I've just installed a multi-protocol network > in a 150 port dorm here at Rutgers, one of which is PhoneNet. I'm now > in the process of pulling together software to provide services for my > Mac users. I have a Sun 4/380 that I'm using as pop/nntp/smtp server, > and am currently looking at BYU Telnet, HyperFtp, MacPOP, and > (possibly) Mews. My problem is this, I'm not the worlds most up to > date Mac Hack (give me a month or two though). What is the general > consensus on what are the best Mail, News, FTP, and telnet programs to > use? I would prefer to stay away from Hypercard because I have several > 1 meg Mac Plus's as clients and need something for them to use. Any > oppinions would be apreciated. > Jim I assume that you want PD? Take a look at NCSA Telnet (The BYU version contains FTP Client, so you don't need the hyperFTP), get a copy of Eudora (sp?) from the U of ILL. For News you are pretty much stuck with a HC stack. I currently do not know of a non-PD news reader that is not a HC stack. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.