Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!buitc!odell From: odell@buitc.bu.edu (Jim O'Dell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Mac based mail and news readers Message-ID: <71823@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 8 Jan 91 20:04:47 GMT References: <3059@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <4812@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: odell@buitc.bu.edu (Jim O'Dell) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 24 In article <4812@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> ehanson@umbc1.umbc.edu writes: >makmur@paul.rutgers.edu (Hanz Makmur) writes... >>>Sorry if this has been talked to death, but I just got back from a >>>three month research trip and may have missed the whole show. Could someone >>>tell me where I can get a program to read/post news/mail from a mac to the >>>net? I've heard of something called MEWS but don't know where to find it. >>>It doesn't seem to be at sumex-aim. Please send advice/comments/jokes to: >> >>yes there is a new program called TheNews. It is relatively good and a >>lot better compared to the hypercard based news readers. you can get >>this program from sumex. > >Doesn't this program (and other similar programs) require ethernet connection >or something? Are there any that work over a modem? Mac/gnuucp works over a modem using the UUCP protocol. Right now it only does mail, but if there were enough interest I wiould be willing to consider a rnews port. Version 4.6 is no in beta test and will be posted to the net in the next few weeks assuming no major problems. Jim jim@fpr.com