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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Offline News (and email) Questions
- Date: 25 Mar 96 10:12:48 +0500
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
- Message-ID: <1801.6658T612T2419@xmission.com>
- References: <4ii5ds$17m6@news.missouri.edu> <19960320.14AAB8.DFBB@nuanda.dei.unipd.it> <4iq8ag$qoo@guava.epix.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: slc33.xmission.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- On or about 21-Mar-96 05:36:32 Bill Near typed the following words about "Re:
- Offline News (and email) Questions". My reply is thus...
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- Hi Bill,
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- BN> On Wed, 20 Mar 96 15:17:45, Andrea Rafreider articulated:
- BN> <> Russ 'Argel' LeBar (c621412@silver.missouri.edu) wrote:
- BN> <> : I was wondering if there's a good OFFline Usenet news reader (that
- BN> will
- BN> <> : also let you queue up followups and replies) around for an AmiTCP
- BN> SLIP
- BN> <> : connection? Thor seems like it might work, but I'd like something
- BN> more
- BN> <> : akin to Legacy for BBX not to mention I like Voodoo for e-mail.
- BN> <>
- BN> <> To read/send news offline you need Tin130gamma, InetUtils 1.4 &
- BN> <> the NewPostNewsSpool utilities (aminet: comm/news/npns.lha).
- BN> <> This is what I actually use to read news offline. Tin is really
- BN> <> great!
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- BN> How do you read news OFFLINE with TIN?
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- You use NNTPxfer to transfer the news from your ISP to your local machine.
- Then you can use TIN and NNTPSpool to read and reply offline. I did that for a
- long time. I use Thor now. Much easier to set up plus it does mail and QWK
- among other things all in one package.
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