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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Offline News (and email) Questions
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 05:25:26 GMT
- Organization: epix.net
- Message-ID: <4jnpc6$4gt@guava.epix.net>
- References: <4ii5ds$17m6@news.missouri.edu> <19960320.14AAB8.DFBB@nuanda.dei.unipd.it>
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- On 30 Mar 96 09:03:36 +0500, John S. Burger articulated:
- <> On or about 26-Mar-96 05:40:55 Bill Near typed the following words about "Re:
- <> Offline News (and email) Questions". My reply is thus...
- <> BN> From what I have seen of Thor, you're not actually online
- <> BN> while reading/replying to Email or newsgroups.
- <>
- <> No you are not but neither was I on line using TIN with the software I
- <> mentioned above. That *WAS* the original question, "How do you read news
- <> OFFLINE with TIN?". I don't want to read online. I do have a flat rate account
- <> with my ISP ($17/month) and a seperate phone line in my house for net
- <> connections but why should I tie up a modem on my ISP's end to read on line?
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- Hell if I know. :-)
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- I do it all the time.
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