Hal,
USWont does have newsgroups... but they dont offer shell
access (and precious few ISP's do). EFN does offer free shell
accounts for life (as long as you dont abuse your account...). You
can use your QWont account to telnet/ssh to your EFN shell
account and use EFN's news (via Pine, TIN, ...).
Jamie
On 26 Sep 2000, at 13:19, Harald Sundt wrote:
> The reason I let my Eugene Free-Net account go was that it got its
> news-groups from the U of O censored news-group lists....At least 2
> years ago I was under the impression that they were being censored in
> the sense a Politically Correct Mz. Somebody was determining which
> news-groups were and which weren't oppressive to minorities etc...
>
>
>
>
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> Hello,
>
> Thank you for contacting QWEST Internet Services Technical Support.
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> I am sorry but we do not offer shell account.
>
> Thank you,
>
> QWEST Internet Services Technical Support
>
> You wrote:
>
> I connect both from a Desktop Apple Mac 7600/132 and a Red Hat Linux
> Laptop. No problems, BUT: I want to convert to an open secure
> shell connection. This means for me that I put a seed or userkeypair
> for myself in my hard-drive space on your server. On your side it
> means that your servers have to be able to handle secure-shell
> connections. Most modern ISPs already do. What is USWest now
> Quest on this?
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