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From: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Any uupc 2.x users out there?
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Date: 15 Jun 91 19:40:13 GMT
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Reply-To: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
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In article <01010090.aj8ewi@mortar.> wchan@mortar. writes:
>You may like to consider using a package called uAccess from ICE
>Engineering. ...

Once upon a time, (October 20, 1990) time@ice.com said:

>The plan, although it will take some time, is to produce a copy of the
>application for the "limited-budget" croud. This would simply leave
>out some of the more luxury features (like the ability to forward news
>to other sites) and bring the discounted price down into the $99-150
>range. This would address the needs of the at home and educational
>users much better.

Are there still any plans to produce this "limited-budget" version of
uAccess? What is the current "street" price of uAccess?

I can't grok the price ($300?) of uAccess, not when I can get
excellent software like C News, IDA sendmail, and nntplink on a unix
system for *zip*. Frankly, I doubt that the news system in uAccess can
compare to C News. To contrast uAccess, with uupc 2.1 and Fernmail I
have a decent email system on my mac for $20.

I understand that uAccess does more than news. I have a file someone
mailed me with all the features spelled out. It sounds like a very
nice package. It's just too expensive for me. I'd rather buy a used
unix-pc for $300 and put C News on it (probably will).

It seems there is a different ethic in the mac world when it comes to
news software.

Just my $2*10^(-02).

-John