Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!caeco!jose!pedro!pete_ashdown
From: pete_ashdown@pedro.UUCP (Pete Ashdown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: (None)
Message-ID: <313@pedro.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 02:38:14 GMT
Organization: Bitsko's Bar & Grill, Public Access, Salt Lake City
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In article <734@csm9a.UUCP>, ngorelic@csm9a.UUCP (Noel Gorelick) writes: 
  
>I still have yet to get pccp working (the front end program transfer 
> thinggy that they supply) 
  
We're trying to get that to do more than just 'run' also. 
  
>     Seriously, I am considering (actually, it's already started) 
>re-writing UUPC.  I'm not real sure that I'm going to try to work in 
>a workbench interface, but I don't see why a few good looking 
>Gadgets/requestors etc. would be unacceptable. 
  
Sounds good, mail me if you are interested in cooperating.  I have received 
some letters from some other people who are also interested.  The main reason 
I would like to intuitionize and conglomerate the whole UUPC package is not 
only for ease of use, but accessibility for the average user.  I can't tell 
you how many people here have asked me for the UUPC package, only to be 
totally befuddled when they got it.  What I would like to shoot for is 
something my little sister could use.  I tried to introduce her to the world 
of telecommunications, but she couldn't grip it at all.  Sadly this is the 
case for 75% of all Amiga owners out there.  Read the recent letters in Amiga 
World to see how the average user feels about telecommunications [Guy Wright 
for example :-)].  I'd like to see this project grow into not only easy 
accessibility to UseNet (which may or may not be a good idea), but a new kind 
of BBS.  What it comes down to, is that I would like to see telecommunications 
jump out of the "World War II Teletype" age into the "Amiga Computer Age." 
App** seems to be the only company making progress in this area.  Its too bad 
too, because I know the Amiga could do it a lot better... 
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