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Mail/News setup on NeXT

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From: Lisa Claesson-Gordon
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 04:00
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I've been acting as postmaster for about a year on an old Sun 3/60;
little memory; little disk space; and a decomiited OS from Sun;
plus no budget or commitment fronmm mgmt to spend any more money on
upgrading it to a Sparc; but we do have a new NeXT machine that came
in for someone who is moving on - such a deal for me!
But, in my first glance at it, its sys config is quite a bit diff
than the Sun. I'd been hoping to put Smail on it, along with News (B or C?)
and run POP3 and NNTP servers on it for Mac/PC access.
Our current connection is a simple dialup (Telebit) to uunet - we're looking
to change to a SLIP or PPP link to PSI (or some other available service.)
Am I crazy for wanting to do this? Should I reconsider and try for a 
Sparc upgrade? Or is it really that bad after all?

Please reply via email to: rgg@aldus.com; as we don't reliably receive
this newsgroup. thanks in advance.

PS: pointers to good archive sites on the net would also be appreciated!
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From: lcgordon@milton.u.washington.edu (Lisa Claesson-Gordon)
Subject: Mail/News setup on NeXT
Message-ID: <lcgordon.715579238@milton>
Summary: How bad is it to configure NeXT for mail/news access?
Keywords: mail news admin
Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: University of Washington
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:00:38 GMT
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