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- From: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Internet site to FTP "tin" mailer
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.064620.21977@anl433.uucp>
- Sender: @anl433.uucp
- Reply-To: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
- Organization: ANL A433, Siemens AG., Germany.
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 Beta PL6]
- References: <1992Sep1.161456.17966@informix.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:46:20 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- William Daul (billd@informix.com) wrote:
- :
- : Someone I work with mentioned a mailer called "tin"(?)
-
- It's not a mailer (yet). Its a newsreader that I will be extending
- in a future release to handle mail.
-
- : Is it avaiable off the net somewhere? Where?
-
- ftp.uwp.edu
-
- : In 50 words or less, what makes it unique?
-
- Slightly more than 50 (have'nt the time to make it shorter) :-)
-
- o Based more on Notes and tass than rn type newreaders.
- o Full screen, easy to use with on-line help at all levels.
- o Reads news locally (ie. /usr/spool/news) and/or via NNTP/INN/CD-ROM.
- o Threads on Subject: and/or Archive-name: mail headers.
- o Five different operating levels:
- - Spooldir selection level (CD-ROM only)
- - Group selection level
- - Thread selection level
- - Article selection level
- - Article viewer
- o Same interface to mail, pipe, print and save articles.
- o Auto unpacking of multi-part shar & uuencoded articles.
- o Auto-selection (hot) of interesting articles.
- o Batch mode to mail/save new news when user is on holiday.
- o Reposting of articles from one newsgroup to another.
- o Builtin NNTP mini-inews & clientlib.c
- o NNTP extensions XUSER & XINDEX to allow central index files.
-
- Iain
-
- --
- NAME Iain Lea
- EMAIL Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net
- SNAIL Siemens AG, ANL A433SZ, Gruendlacher Str. 248, 8510 Fuerth, Germany.
- PHONE +49-911-3089-407 (work) +49-911-331963 (home) +49-911-3089-290 (FAX)
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