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In <1990Dec30.233541.1853@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:

>Doug Sewell <DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu> writes:

>>In article <1990Dec30.022715.14429@inel.gov>, lin@sixmile.inel.gov (Linn Hower)
>>says:
>>>
>>>  I would like to be able to receive email and possibly some news on
>>>my home computer.
>Let me add one more way: SLIP.  Serial Line Internet Protocol.  [...]

You then have to write your own (or get somewhere) news and mail software
to use SLIP and the other TCP/IP services.  If you use Windows, the program
WINVN apparently lets you do news reading over SLIP or ethernet, etc,
but since I don't have access to a SLIP login, I haven't been able to test it.

You aren't just limited to SLIP with KA9Q and its buddies.  Any software
that can use the Clarkson packet drivers can run on almost any type of
network, connection or ethernet card, so this is another thing to keep in
mind if you have PC's on an ethernet, PC-NFS system, etc (much faster than
using SLIP over a modem!).  PC-NFS and similar news readers do exist in
some places already.

There are quite a few people that I'm aware of (can't remember their names
sorry) that are working on PC news readers, especially for NNTP connections,
rather than the (very old) UUCP protocol, but not much has emerged yet.

Rhys.

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