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From: johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How to access the Unix network using the PC
Message-ID: <1479@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 29 Dec 89 04:57:53 GMT
References: <4067@peora.ccur.com>
Reply-To: johnb@lakesys.UUCP (John C. Burant)
Organization: With people like this?
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In article <4067@peora.ccur.com> tran@peora.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
>
>  I am not a new user on the Usenet, but I have friends who want to access
>the net.  They don't have accounts on any Unix or Bitnet machine.  They
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>  That's all I know.  I'd appreciate more information about this, especially
>the name of the public systems.
>
Well, there are the public access systems you mentioned.  They are published
every week, 2 weeks or month or something (12.5 days?) in the newsgroup
nixpub.list (I think I have the name right.)  There are about 80 some listed,
and they come in most NPAs (area codes) but not all. 

There is also some sort of cross-over between FidoNet (IBM Opus BBSs) and
the USENET, but I'm not in that scene so I couldn't tell you about it, and
it's only on some Fido BBSs.  [look at local BBS list for your nearest
friendly neighborhood Opus, QBBS, or whatever FidoNet BBS]
-John


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