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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Does a Mac NNTP news reader exist?
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.004205.20298@visix.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 00:42:05 GMT
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bryanvv@mttam.uucp (Bryan Van Vliet) writes:
>2) TCP/Connect II - ... I believe it doesn't have the 32k TextEdit limit
>   for displaying articles, although I am not sure.

You are correct.  It doesn't use TextEdit, so it can handle big articles
and tabs, as well as being faster than TextEdit would be.  Personally, I
like its UI best, but that's probably because I wrote it :)...

>Why is the Communications Toolbox available on BBS systems 
>(America Online for instance) and not MacTCP? Why isn't MacTCP available
>from your dealer?

Well, the cynic in me would say that it's simply becaause Apple can't support
MacTCP to end users.  One advantage (to Apple) of making it an OEM product
is that Apple then doesn't have to deal with customers (not to mention
dealers) who don't understand what an IP number is.  Sigh...

However, as Steve Dorner has pointed out a few times, it *does* come with
Eudora, which is available for anonymous FTP.  It's also on the developer
CD-ROMs.

Disclaimer: I used to work for InterCon, and wrote their newsreader.
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