On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 04:59:43 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 03:02:03 -0500 (EST), Howard Eisenberger wrote:
>> NNTP is the standard way to access newsgroups (Usenet) over the >> Internet. DOS NNTP clients that I have used are uka_ppp, ka9q >> (Yan) and Lynx386 (online). >> If you have a shell account, you might be able to access Usenet >> using a Unix newsreader > Using a Unix newsreader from a shell account is *much* faster and > more efficient than the DOS NNTP clients. Or you can just use > Pine for both news and email from a shell. It smokes. > Any old DOS computer and an old version of Telix will work just > fine to get you to a local shell account if you can find one > still available. Howard: On a recent post you made on the DOSLYNX list you mentioned http://www.linuxfreemail.com which runs Pine in a Telnet session. Will that work for downloading newsgroup posts and for sending newsgroup posts? Regards, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
