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- From: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Offline News (and email) Questions
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 12:25:09 PST
- Organization: Internet for the Olympic Peninsula
- Message-ID: <19960327.120DA90.B07B@olympus.net>
- References: <4ii5ds$17m6@news.missouri.edu> <19960320.14AAB8.DFBB@nuanda.dei.unipd.it> <4iq8ag$qoo@guava.epix.net> <1801.6658T612T2419@xmission.com> <4j7een$3j8@guava.epix.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: papm006.olympus.net
- X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0]
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- Bill Near (wnear@epix.net) wrote:
- : On 25 Mar 96 10:12:48 +0500, John S. Burger articulated:
- : <> On or about 21-Mar-96 05:36:32 Bill Near typed the following words about "Re:
- : <> BN> How do you read news OFFLINE with TIN?
- : <>
- : <> 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.
- :
- : From what I have seen of Thor, you're not actually online
- : while reading/replying to Email or newsgroups.
- :
- Right, but like others have said you do not have to be online while
- reading/replying to Email or newsgroups with Tin (or Elm) either.
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- As a seperate issue I have always marveled at how people could say Thor
- was easier to set up then SMTP, elm, tin, AmiPOP, etc.
- I tried to install Thor several times and never got things working correctly.
- At least programs like tin and elm have good documentation so you can
- read what you need to do to set it up. The Thor documentation is
- difficult at best to walk through and install Thor.
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