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From: cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer)
Subject: Re: Low-cost Usenet (Re: usenet in Nepal)
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 19:47:00 GMT

In article <28669966.27747@orion.oac.uci.edu> jhess@orion.oac.uci.edu 
(James Hess) writes:

>of the U.S.-Mexican border.  A problem for many is the cost of the telephone 
>line.  We hope to combine available software to enable people to log on, 
>automatically download any new messages in the conferences they follow, then 
>log off and hang up.  The messages could then be edited, replies written, 
>followed by a log on and automated up-load.  
>
>Wish us luck!

"Good luck!"

BTW, don't even think about writing your own software until you have
checked out FidoNet "point" software (many different packages) and
"Waffle" (similar concept for Usenet). They integrate the whole process
so you don't think in terms of logging in and automatically uploading
and downloading. You think in terms of either just leaving your computer
on all night so something mysterious happens or occasionally telling it
to "do it's stuff". Then you are just writing and reading messages on
your own computer. No visible "logging in" or "uploading" or "downloading".

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