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From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: modem/serial news and mail readers
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Date: 18 Dec 90 14:37:15 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.225113.14671@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Dec15.031953.24134@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Dec18.042719.1383@lsuc.on.ca>
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In article <1990Dec18.042719.1383@lsuc.on.ca> jmm@lsuc.on.ca (John Macdonald) writes:
>There is nothing about news that requires TCP/IP.  The original news
>software was designed to run using modem and uucp connections. 

So true.  Even though a lot of us are spoiled with TCP/IP (:-)), there
are a great deal of people who still use the AT&T network and modems
to read news.
-- 
Kevin Kuehl
krk@cs.purdue.edu
kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu