Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!cynic!curt From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Standalone NeXT attatch to Internet? Message-ID: Date: 3 Nov 90 05:46:17 GMT References: <1990Nov2.174003.2565@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout -- (604) 687-6736 Lines: 19 vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag) writes: > I wish to finagle things so that my Cube can act as a site for me and friends > so that they can send and receive email on the net, read news on the net, and > generally act as if they have accounts on a site on the Net... I run a BBS called Waffle on my IBM PC. It's available in a NeXT version as well. If you want to have a way to let people log in to your system and read and send news and mail without letting them into the rather unsecure guts of UNIX it works quite well. If you don't mind letting your friends on to the "real" system (i.e., you trust them) then why don't you just give each of them an account and set up a UUCP link with somebody in your neighbourhood? Just think of it as a regular 'ol UNIX box. cjs curt@cynic.UUCP Vancouver, B.C., Canada curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca BBS: +1 604 687 6736 (2400 bps) {uunet|ubc-cs}!van-bc!cynic!curt (anonymous uucp available, mail for info)