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In article <1993Jan12.155303.13091@aston.ac.uk> davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:

>   I know it is possible to set up an Archimedes to receive mail and news. I 
> believe it is possible to arrange matters for this to happen where the arch. 
> does not have a direct connection to the JANET/Internet e.g. over a dial up
> line of some kind.
>   Could someone please confirm that this is indeed the case and if so could
> someone send me (or post here) the complete instructions for how to do this.
>   I realise that various pieces of software are required but I don't know 
> exactly which ones (KA9Q? RUCP?) or where I can get them from (I know some 
> are on the Newcastle info-server).

It all depends who is providing the service...

If you can arrange a UUCP feed, then you want rucp and readnews (both from
newky, except I think rucp has been mis-named uucp.

If you have a tcp/ip feed (as available from demon internet services for
a tenner a month for dial-up access), then you need Jonathan Naylor's
ka9q and BM package.  Note that this has been subsequently modified by
Anthony Frost (vulch@kerno.demon.co.uk) to add a news download - this version
is available by ftp from demon.co.uk in /pub/archimedes and on Arcade BBS.
BM is the mailer, though you may prefer to use Anthony Frost's ReaderS (10
pounds careware) - you'll need this to read news.  In the near future, you
may see programs which let you use readnews with ka9q.

>   I'm sure this information would be of interest to others too.

Maybe not, it'll either cost 'em a tenner a month + phone bills, or they'll
have to wheedle a uucp feed from their system admins.

--Paul

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