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- From: lbianchi@sol.yorku.ca (Luigi M Bianchi)
- Subject: Re: Reading N E W S Offline --- Is It Possible --- If So How?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.015417.1@sol.yorku.ca>
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- Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: York University
- References: <1993Jan25.200927.198@cs.mun.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:54:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.200927.198@cs.mun.ca>, gaellin@odie.cs.mun.ca (Gaellin O'Rourke) writes:
- > I am using OS/2 from my home computer, connecting to an internet connection at
- > my local university. What I am trying to do is download news files to my home
- > read them offline then respond to certin articles and upload my responses.
- >
- > What you would see in the BBS world ie. QWK Mail, or BlueWave.
- >
- > Is there any type of package that I could get that would make this possible.
- > If not is there any other way of going about this.
- >
- > Thanks in advance...
- >
- > Gaellin O'Rourke
- > gaellin@odie.cs.mun.ca
- >
-
- For one, I know of a UNIX site in Toronto (Canada): ZOOiD, which has what
- in the BBS world is called a QWK Mail door. You can read the news online
- and/or download your chosen newsgroups (using ZModem or other protocols) and
- then read them offline with any mail reader, and finally upload the packet
- up to ZOOiD again, where your postings, replies, ecc. will be automatically
- sent to the appropriate sites.
-
- There are several mail readers which run under OS/2 and I presume you have
- some terminal program already. I think there are a few places in CA where
- you can do what I outlined above. Good luck.
-
- --Luigi Bianchi
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