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From: Steven.Maker@dartmouth.edu (Steven Maker)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Does a Mac NNTP news reader exist?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 21:42:22 GMT
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At Dartmouth College, two of us are writing a Macintosh NNTP news reader for
use as a general conferencing and bulletin board system here, and also to
interface with the Usenet News.  Temporarily called ProtoNews, it is currently
operational in developmental versions, and is in daily use by a number of
people, but at the moment only speaks our local network protocol (KSP).  A
future version will also support the Comm Toolbox, and will be usable outside
Dartmouth.  If we're allowed to, we'll distribute it for free.

ProtoNews is a MacApp program.   You read news via a three-paned window:
newsgroups, topics, & articles, with Macintosh style (not rn/nn) commands.  Any
number of windows can be open at once, containing newsgroups selected by you. 
We think it's an improvement over the Unix-based systems, and our users seem to
agree.

I'm using it to post this message.

Steve Maker      INTERNET: Steve.Maker@dartmouth.edu
Courseware Development Group, Dartmouth College