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- From: john@goshawk.mcc.ac.uk (John Heaton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SLIP?NOS?POP3? Help please!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.114616.10698@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 11:46:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.103901.14447@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.103901.14447@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- |> I'm real confused ....
- |>
- |> My school is changing their computer setup so that we users can
- |> access their USENET feed and mail and Internet services. To do this,
- |> we are supposed to use SLIP to create an IP address for Internet stuff
- |> (like FTP) and a mail reader that supports POP3 protocol. Apparently,
- |> we have to use a popmail mail reader to access mail and/or USENET.
- |>
- |> Now, I don't reallu undertand any of this stuff, and the school is -
- |> how should we say, less than sympathetic - to Amiga users. They say we
- |> can't do it. Please tell me I can. Can I use AmigaNOS for SLIP?
- |>
- |> WHat mail reader supports pop3. Any help anyone can provide will be
- |> honored with a great big message in skywriting. Or a thanks ...
- |>
- |> Aaron
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- AmigaNOS works on SLIP and POP2, POP3 may be on it soon.
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- John.
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