🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1m5a3pINNqsr@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>,
s890412@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Chris Diffey) wrote:

> dropping of the usenet censorship
> encouraging australia mud sites, 
> gif site mirrors ( a more touchy subject I guess),
 
Sounds like good ideas to me, all of which would do great things for the
satelite bandwidth no doubt, but don't hold your breath waiting :-)

> perhaps encouraging the use of a packet version of talk (sends a line rather 
>   than a character)

I doubt this will help much, but its the only one there are simple
solutions for.

For people after a packet version of Talk, you can either set up a MUD
server (MUDs with very cut down universes make reasonably good multi-way
communication sites, we used one as a BBS (we still would be, but are
hardware is fried at the moment)).

Another possiblity if you have a Mac with MacTCP is to get my Chat server
from archie.au:/mirrors/mac/info-mac/comm.  It's basically a multi-person,
line based chat system - not only do you save some of the bandwidth but you
get multiple people at once at the same time.

MUDDweller is a nice mac client for both of those solutions.

Enjoy,
   Peter.

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