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From: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Newsreader/lpr for the Mac.
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Date: 14 Dec 90 00:24:58 GMT
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In article <5335@crystal9.UUCP> derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
)>In article <10128@bunny.GTE.COM> jp10@GTE.COM (Jeffrey Perry) writes:
)>> I would be interested in any information you get on news readers for
)>> the mac. I know about the hypercard one but i believe it only works 
)>> with TCP.
 
)There was another news reader mentioned in comp.sys.mac.digest
)a couple of days ago.  I have requested a copy but have not 
)received it.  It also uses MacTCP.  Is there something wrong
)with MacTCP?

	Yes and no.  It probably works just fine if you are are on a 
network, but my mac is standalone, fed mail via UUCP.  Is there news
software for stand alone macs *other* than uAccess, which is a tad
richer than I can/care/would pay ($375 list, approx. ~$200 educational.)
When you think of the functional UUCP mail and news implimentations for
the messy-dos and ameager's (free or shareware!) it is amazing that 
no-one has done the same for the Mac.  The best I've seen was UUCP and
mail, and it works, it just isn't very mac-like (which I can live with.)

	At this point I'm have convinced that I'll have to hack something
up myself, which is a pain because I'm not a programmer...
 
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