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From: pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PC based news reader (possibly receiver too)
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.215655.21276@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 21:56:55 GMT
Sender: pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com (Pete Lyall)
Organization: Contel Federal Systems
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I'm going to be leaving my present job and transitioning over to a
location where news may not be available (yet .. ;^}). I started to
write some simple tools for collecting articles & compressing them so
that I could Zmodem them home to my PC for unpacking and reading.

It works, but it's a fairly ungainly approach (especially in terms of
following a threaded discussion). It occurred to me that I was
probably reinventing the wheel, and that several other folks
may already successfully and happily be doing what I would like to do.

That in mind, I beseech you net.pc.wizards: what's available (and
where) for home based news reading software? I do have a dedicated
phone line for the system at home w/ a 9600 v.32 modem on it, and I
have done some mucking with UUCP here in the past. All suggestions
greatly appreciated.

Pete Lyall (hopelessly addicted to News for over 5 years....)

P.S. Please mail responses to pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com


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"... So I picked up my pride from beneath the pay phone, and combed his breath 
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