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Bill Near (wnear@epix.net) wrote:
: 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.
:
Right, but like others have said you do not have to be online while
reading/replying to Email or newsgroups with Tin (or Elm) either.

As a seperate issue I have always marveled at how people could say Thor
was easier to set up then SMTP, elm, tin, AmiPOP, etc.
I tried to install Thor several times and never got things working correctly.
At least programs like tin and elm have good documentation so you can
read what you need to do to set it up.  The Thor documentation is
difficult at best to walk through and install Thor.

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