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From: eer36024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik Reuter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: modem/serial news and mail readers
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.225113.14671@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 22:51:13 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I am trying to learn about news and email readers for the mac that will
work over a modem.  I know little to nothing about them.

I currently log on to a UNIX machine with Zterm on a limited account I
obtained from my University.  At 2400 baud, reading more than a very
small amount of news is quite time consuming.

It seems that the perfect job for my Mac would be to capture the newsfiles
I read in the background while I am doing something else, and then 
provide a nice user interface for me to read and post news.

Is there a program to do this?  Or should I forget about it and just use
Zterm?

I have heard of uAccess, but when I asked locally about how I would go
about getting my machine set up to do UUCP I received this:
(I don't understand most of it!  :-(  

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>UUCP accounts are in general a pain to maintain.  For that reason I establish
>them only for managed multi-user machines that are likely to be around for a
>while.  In particular the link must be bi-directional so that trouble one
>way does not disable the link and cause mail to accumulate (or bounce).
>Another gotcha is that CSO provides only NNTP links for news.  

>SLIP is a much better way to go than UUCP.

>         Paul Pomes
>UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!paul   Internet, BITNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
>US Mail:  UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL  61801-2910

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>paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:

>>     Okay, so what is SLIP?  What program might I get to use it?
>SLIP = Serial Line IP.  See RFC 1171 and 1172 for the specification.  I'm
>sure there are implementations of it, however I don't keep track of them.
>The Micro Resource Center is probably aware of several versions.

>>     The reason I am interested in this is just that I spend a lot of time
>>reading news and mail, and I am rarely around a convenient network connected
>>computer.  I have this nice computer and 2400 baud modem in my apartment,
>>and it seems that there should be a better way than logging onto uxa
>>with a terminal program.

>Why?  Aren't Macs just very small terminals with terrible keyboards?  For
>email I would obtain Eudora from the Micro Resource Center or the IMAP package
>from ftphost.cac.washington.edu.  Shipping news to your Mac is the wrong
>paradigm, the Mac should be viewed as a remote news reader that provides a
>interface to News.  Again there are several Mac programs for reading News.
>In any case the MRC should be your first stop for questions like these.


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