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In article <9vckmt$eh0v9$5@ID-49635.news.dfncis.de>
           tmueller@bluegrass.net "Thomas Mueller" writes:

> Was ka9q for PPP or only for SLIP?  This question would be relevant to DOS as
> well as OS/2. 

Either, IIRC.  I've only ever used it in PPP mode, but I believe it can
be configured to use SLIP instead.
 
>               I remember looking through Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) for
> dialers better than Dial Other Internet Providers and its included PPP.EXE but
> never saw a KA9Q/2. 

Please be aware that KA9Q, with or without the "/2", is complete in and
of itself.  The TCP/IP stack it implements is purely internal, and it
incorporates clients and server daemons for SMTP, finger, telnet, ftp,
etc., as well as an NNTP client (for [effectively] slurping).  Recent
hackery has added an equivalent to wget, a POP3 client, etc.  However, it
would not have provided you with an alternative to DOIP for supporting,
say, WebEx.

[snip]
 
> I notice this line in the headers from news.cis.dfn.de
> 
> Xref: uni-berlin.de demon.ip.support.pc:1989 demon.ip.support.os2:29
> 
> Is demon.ip.support.os2 a new newsgroup, or is it just new with news.cis.dfn.de?> 

demon.ip.support.os2 has been in existence since before I started with
Demon, in 1994.  The headers on your post include:

| Xref: news.demon.co.uk demon.ip.support.pc:7769 demon.ip.support.os2:557

which indicates the relative "busyness" of the two groups.  These numbers
would be from when the NewsBorg Mk.III (IIRC) was commissioned in around
1996, I think.

The ratio in Berlin's case is much smaller, but this is understandable
since few people nowadays use OS/2 with Demon: we're mostly pretty self-
sufficient anyway :-)  Ergo, the group is nowadays little-used; my post
into it was the first for a number of weeks (apart from the odd multi-
posted spam, of course).

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs