"Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I see you have many variations on your e-dress. How do you get
> Arachne list to recognize them all?
I've got plenty of e-mail addresses (all valid). I don't subscribe
to the list with more than one at a time. The useful thing about
the gmx address is that I can change it and keep the same account.
Unfortunately, I get lots of spam to the addresses I can't change,
and none to the one I can. Go figure.
> Problem with so many NNTP servers is that you can't usually access
> a server other than your ISP's server. But I managed to connect to
> news.freewwweb.com with UKA_PPP from the Freewwweb connection, and
> it worked even with the username-password authentication.
There are still a number of open NNTP servers around but for obvious
reasons they don't allow posting. This works well with KA9Q and Snews,
since Snews defaults to using a mail2news gateway for posting.
> I heard of but never worked with QWK, as BBSes gave way to the Internet.
> Same is true of Fidonet. But there are still a few people who seem to
> use BBS-style editors for mail or news,
BBS's and Fidonet may be down, but they're not dead yet. Dialup is
still quite popular outside of North America and there seem to be a
number of Internet (telnetable) BBS's springing up using cable and
DSL technology. I started looking into this stuff a few months ago
as an alternative to all the commercial gunk on the Internet, and
have been fairly impressed.
> Using Pine under DR-DOS,
While I've used PC-Pine a bit for IMAP access, I find it the least
useful of the alternatives. As I mentioned, Lynx386 can be used for
online newsreading. I'm not sure about Bobcat. Different strokes
for different folks, I guess.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada
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