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- Path: nntp.crl.com!usenet
- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: THOR
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 04:08:39 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
- Message-ID: <2045.6631T1205T2016@crl.com>
- References: <669.6630T1428T1447@maui.netwave.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: crl14.crl.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- >On 25-Feb-96 05:59:28 Remco van Hooff, Re: THOR, wrote:
- RvH>> Hi GZHBIF,
- RvH>> On 23-feb-96 09:47:27 you wrote about THOR,
-
- RvH>> G> Does anybody work with the offline mail reader THOR?
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- RvH>> Yes, I do (I'm using it right now to reply to your msg).
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- RvH>> G> Is THOR better then SPOT?
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- RvH>> IMHO, yes :.)
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- RvH>> G> Does Thor need also Trapdoor?
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- RvH>> Yes.
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- RvH>> (3 in a row ;.)
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- >What is Trapdoor, and why am I using Thor without it?
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- Trapdoor is used to Upload/Download Fidonet Messages. It's the Frontend of a
- BBS! You know when you log on a FIDO BBS and you have to hit ESC or something
- to continue. to log on, otherwise it may think your another Mailer like
- Trapdoor trying to connect to send/recive the new messages. Or if your a
- Point(A NON BBS) that logs on with say Trapdoor to the BBS, say DLG Pro that's
- using Trapdoor to just grab all your new Messages and send anything you may
- have wrote without acually having to Log ONTO the BBS like most everyone else.
- Ummm, TO put it more simply, you DON'T NEED it for the Internet, Not that you
- could acually use it anyway for the Internet.
-
- I used to run a BBS for around 5 Years, and had Fidonet and Familynet access
- to my system using DLG Pro for the BBS and Trapdoor for the Mailer. When My
- system when Down, I used Trapdoor for my Mailer and Foozle for my Mail Reader
- which is like SPOT. Since being on the Internet, I've stopped all the Fidonet
- stuff.
-
- To put it more Simply yet, You don't use THOR to connect to the Internet to
- get your messages do you! Same with SPOT or Fozzle or whatever other Message
- readers. You use the ConnectThor (Probley) for the Internet for THOR, where
- SPOT Foozle, and Even THOR would use Trapdoor or some other Mailer to
- basically connect onto a Fidonet NODE (Though there are other Message
- Networks) to Pickup Packed messages that are waiting for you to grab, and to
- send anything you may have written. From there it gets Passed from BBS to BBS
- all over the world, it's not FAST, like the Internet, but it does get the Job
- done.
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