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Re: Offline News (and email) Questions

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From: Bill Near
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:40
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On 25 Mar 96 10:12:48 +0500, John S. Burger articulated:
<> On or about 21-Mar-96 05:36:32 Bill Near typed the following words about "Re:
<>  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.

From what I have seen of Thor, you're not actually online
while reading/replying to Email or newsgroups.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.epix.net!PROBLEM_WITH_NODE_NAME!not-for-mail
From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Re: Offline News (and email) Questions
Date: 26 Mar 1996 00:40:55 GMT
Organization: epix.net
Message-ID: <4j7een$3j8@guava.epix.net>
References: <4ii5ds$17m6@news.missouri.edu> <19960320.14AAB8.DFBB@nuanda.dei.unipd.it> <4iq8ag$qoo@guava.epix.net> <1801.6658T612T2419@xmission.com>
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