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From: blob@bnrmtv.UUCP (Brian Bechtel)
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Subject: Re: Scary Thought ...
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Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 10:39:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  7 10:39:37 1987
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> In article <863@maynard.BSW.COM>, campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes:
> > There's a lot more to Usenet than UUCP.  I don't know about Lauren's
> > package, but uuslave is a VERY simpleminded UUCP file transfer hack.
> 
> Right, and so far, people are still working on getting news up on
> a IBM-PC running UNIX, the DOS port is probably farther away.
> 

There are many sites on the net already running Unix, news, etc. on IBM
ATs or clones.  Lauren's package provides wonderful access to mail, but
only so-so access to news.  For instance, all news groups that you
subscribe to go into one pseudo-user called news.

The mail side of his package supports everything you'd want, and allows
multiple users on the single PC to have their own mail accounts.  We use
it at Mead Data Central's personal computer group to communicate with
our friends on the net.  Right now, we ARE receiving about 7 newsgroups,
and it's a pain--I ignore the groups that two other people want to read,
etc.

I'd like to do something better, for news.  But for mail, his package is
pretty slick (ignoring the fact that there is no documentation supplied,
etc....)  UULINK works.

--Brian Bechtel		{amdahl, hplabs}!bnrmtv!mdc!blob