Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!rhys From: rhys@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: How do I get email/news to a PC? Message-ID: <6529@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 31 Dec 90 00:32:24 GMT References: <1990Dec30.022715.14429@inel.gov> <90364.102751DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu> <1990Dec30.233541.1853@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: rhys@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 33 In <1990Dec30.233541.1853@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: >Doug Sewell writes: >>In article <1990Dec30.022715.14429@inel.gov>, lin@sixmile.inel.gov (Linn Hower) >>says: >>> >>> I would like to be able to receive email and possibly some news on >>>my home computer. >Let me add one more way: SLIP. Serial Line Internet Protocol. [...] You then have to write your own (or get somewhere) news and mail software to use SLIP and the other TCP/IP services. If you use Windows, the program WINVN apparently lets you do news reading over SLIP or ethernet, etc, but since I don't have access to a SLIP login, I haven't been able to test it. You aren't just limited to SLIP with KA9Q and its buddies. Any software that can use the Clarkson packet drivers can run on almost any type of network, connection or ethernet card, so this is another thing to keep in mind if you have PC's on an ethernet, PC-NFS system, etc (much faster than using SLIP over a modem!). PC-NFS and similar news readers do exist in some places already. There are quite a few people that I'm aware of (can't remember their names sorry) that are working on PC news readers, especially for NNTP connections, rather than the (very old) UUCP protocol, but not much has emerged yet. Rhys. +===============================+==================================+ || Rhys Weatherley | The University of Queensland, || || rhys@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au | Australia. G'day!! || +===============================+==================================+