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Article #1548Re: Connecting a Mac to Demon
From: Larry Stoter
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 00:00
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Alan Guest <alan@macropolis.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Andy Hawkins <andy@gently.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm sure this is an FAQ, so I'll start by asking to pointers for the FAQ for > > this group if one exists. > > > > What I want to do is set up a Mac (not sure of exact model, but it's fairly snips ... > > Any pointers would be much appreciated. > > > > TIA > > > > Andy > > The Mac may have one of two TCP extensions TCP/IP is the newer and more > user friendly or MacTCP which is the older version. You will also need a > PPP extension (apple do one and there is one called FreePPP which is > very good). The PPP option when loaded appears in the TCP/IP or Mac TCP snips .. > is good news). I use MacSoup to download news. Its quick, efficient and > will download messages for offline reading. Beats the pants off > IE4/Outlook Express. Only problem is bad support for attachments and no > full newsgroup list means that you need to know the name of where you > wnat to go before you can go. > > I hope this is of some use. > > Alan > Eudora through the virtual POP server for e-mail and MacSOUP for news, which does have a full group listing, at least mine does. 'Special' menu, 'Show List of all groups' command. -- Larry Stoter 17, Rocks Park Road, Uckfield, E. Sussex, TN22 2AT, UK email: LPS@teknesis.demon.co.uk Phone/Fax: +44 (0)1825 767967
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,ce4ea1c25757e79a X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: LPS@teknesis.demon.co.uk (Larry Stoter) Subject: Re: Connecting a Mac to Demon Date: 1998/03/07 Message-ID: <1998030706595842671@teknesis.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 331641800 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: teknesis.demon.co.uk [158.152.199.245] References: <6dmr6g$sp$1@gently.demon.co.uk> <19980306013040693980@macropolis.demon.co.uk> Organization: Technesis Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac