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In article <885314832snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john$@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:

> p@p> Seems to me then that the obvious course of action is to
> p@p> upgrade to GremNOS or YAN or a recent flavour of NET/Textwin
>      ^^^^^^^
> 
> A WinDIS user might reasonably consider that not to be an
> upgrade.  Surely the big advantage of running WinDIS is

Maybe I left out the winkey-smiley?

Actually I was being half-serious; if spam is becoming that
much of a problem, it would be at least worth considering
using a modern NET/tw to collect mail (and perhaps news)
and switch off SMTP in WinDIS (assuming one can).  Agreed
it's two calls instead of one - what price spam-killing?

> that it uses WinSock, so alongside WinDIS you can run NetScape
> or whatever.  How you can do that with NOS unless
> you know how to add a packet shim that gets NOS talking via
> WinSock?

Wouldn't mind betting that (a) someone has done it and (b)
some folk would find it very useful.  Not me on either count
I hasten to add.
-- 
Pete