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From: cliff@rlgvax.UUCP (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.admin
Subject: Help!  Losing my USENET access. . .
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 17:26:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 17:26:46 1987
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I'm sending this to various newsgroups as I'm looking for information which
is probably widely distributed.

I will soon be moving to Binghamton NY to attend SUNY grad school.  Their
computer center supports BITNET and CSNET, and they have a UN*X mahcine,
but are currently not supporting UUCP.  I'm an experienced C/UN*X programmer,
but a novice to the black arts of UUCP, and am wondering what the best
method is for me to maintain my USENET access, both mail and news.  I
thought I'd drivel on here about my thoughts on the matter.

I own a PC w/a modem, so I suppose I could grab the recent MSDOS UUCP
posting in comp.sources.misc and try to do it myself.  I suppose this
would take a bit of hacking and heartache.  Where else is this code
distributed, which version is best? Could I send news/mail this way?
Also, could I grab UUSLAVE, and is that read-only? Anyway, I assume my
costs would be lessened if I were to find a friendly UUCP site within a
local call and arrange for them to feed me news? How would I go about
finding one? How does all that work anyway?

Alternatively, I've heard of public access USENET in Cleveland, and uunet. 
Am I correct that I could get news without special software from them,
although at a cost?

Also, I'm aware that there are BITNET/UUCP gateways, but I assume that only
supports mail, not news.  Is there anyway to feed news through those
gateways?

Or, as I soon hope to establish friendly relations w/Cornell CS, perhaps I
could gain a login on some Cornell UUCP machine, and make the intermediate
distance call?

Finally, I suppose I could cajole the SUNY computer center into
supporting UUCP, but I assume that would be a major effort for them, and
presumably I'd end up as sysadmin, and there's more hacking and pain. 
How would I go about doing this?

Any help would be appreciated, including addresses and numbers of those
more in the know, or who might be able to help me.

Thanks a lot.

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