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Article #5783Re: Offline News (and email) Questions
From: John S. Burger
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:12
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:12
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On or about 21-Mar-96 05:36:32 Bill Near typed the following words about "Re:
Offline News (and email) Questions". My reply is thus...
Hi Bill,
BN> On Wed, 20 Mar 96 15:17:45, Andrea Rafreider articulated:
BN> <> Russ 'Argel' LeBar (c621412@silver.missouri.edu) wrote:
BN> <> : I was wondering if there's a good OFFline Usenet news reader (that
BN> will
BN> <> : also let you queue up followups and replies) around for an AmiTCP
BN> SLIP
BN> <> : connection? Thor seems like it might work, but I'd like something
BN> more
BN> <> : akin to Legacy for BBX not to mention I like Voodoo for e-mail.
BN> <>
BN> <> To read/send news offline you need Tin130gamma, InetUtils 1.4 &
BN> <> the NewPostNewsSpool utilities (aminet: comm/news/npns.lha).
BN> <> This is what I actually use to read news offline. Tin is really
BN> <> great!
BN> How do you read news OFFLINE with TIN?
You use NNTPxfer to transfer the news from your ISP to your local machine.
Then you can use TIN and NNTPSpool to read and reply offline. I did that for a
long time. I use Thor now. Much easier to set up plus it does mail and QWK
among other things all in one package.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!xmission!news From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking Subject: Re: Offline News (and email) Questions Date: 25 Mar 96 10:12:48 +0500 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <1801.6658T612T2419@xmission.com> References: <4ii5ds$17m6@news.missouri.edu> <19960320.14AAB8.DFBB@nuanda.dei.unipd.it> <4iq8ag$qoo@guava.epix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slc33.xmission.com X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)