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From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Recieving NEWS from BBS's
Message-ID: <6583@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 19:44:09 GMT
References: <1991May23.093144.1@titan.kingston.ac.uk> <6548@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991May24.154045.15703@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca>
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In article <1991May24.154045.15703@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca> mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
>In article <6548@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
>>UUCP is available which will let your machine work as sort-of a point
>>(Using FidoNet terminology) from your local university. Also Dialog
>>Pro BB/OS has the distinction of being the only BBS for the Amiga
>
>  Steve Tibbett's BBX has long had 'Usenet' capabilities. (For what
>their worth to a dialup person who has only an hour a day) 
>  It also has Fidonet utilities care of Gregory Kritsch's modified
>juliet.library that access Steve's message base library. Something
>very similar could be written for RFC1036 format. (In fact, I think
>Greg may be nearly finished)
>  I believe that several people have also added 'usenet' capabilities
>via AREXX.

I stand corrected. As I understand it there are doors available for
C-Net Amiga that also allows UseNet access. Paragon even has a program
to allow read-only access to UseNet. Write access should be
forthcoming soon I am told. 

Dialog is the only one I knew of that allowed for UseNet being part of
the original software. Still, there are a number of options open to
people anymore.


Laurana

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