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- Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:47 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: "J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818" <JLW@psulias.psu.edu>
- From: "J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818" <JLW@psulias.psu.edu>
- Subject: FWD: RE: NNTP server for VMS?
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- From a discussion between an avowed netnews user and myself:
-
- >>>Do you read netnews?
- >>
- >>No, I don't. We don't have a netnews feed, nor do we have the spare disk
- >>space hold it.
- >
- >You don't need to use _any_ disk to store news articles, and you
- >don't need a news feed.
- >
- >You can get news reading clients that will connect with a news
- >server and fetch articles as you read them. (the protocal is called
- >NNTP). There are NNTP news readers for VMS, Unix, VM/VMS, MS-DOS, Macs and
- >just about everything else.
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- I'm running VMS v5.5 and Multinet v3.0; where might I find such an as a VMS
- NNCP client that will work in that environment?
-
- +-"Never Underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes"--+
- | J.Lance Wilkinson ("Lance") BitNet: JLW@PSULIAS.BITNET |
- | Systems Design Specialist - Lead InterNet: JLW@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU |
- | Library Computing Services AT&T:(814) 865-1818 FAX:(814)863-3560 |
- | E8 Pattee Library "I'd rather be dancing..." |
- | Penn State University A host is a host from coast to coast, |
- | University Park, PA 16802 And no one will talk to a host that's close |
- | <POSTMAST@PSULIAS.BITNET> Unless the host that isn't close |
- | <POSTMAST@PSUCES.BITNET> Is busy, hung or dead. |
- +------"He's dead, Jim. I'll get his tricorder. You take his wallet."-------+
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