From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: I Never Thought . . .
Date: 29 Sep 92 03:18:51 GMT
Organization: The Polyhedron Group

In article <1a7phgINN3n3@gap.caltech.edu>, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
(Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep25.050145.27260@nntp.uoregon.edu>, JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason)) writes:
> >As I understand it, the direct dial-in line accesses the newsgroups via the
> >VAX software _VNEWS_ . The on-campus connections that I use access them via
> >the campus LAN, using a Macintosh program called _Newswatcher_ . Two
> >different mail servers, using different communication protocols.
> 
> StM comments, "That seems highly unlikely.  They should both be using NNTP."
> 
> >The VAX mail server is subscribing to a subset of what is available. The Mac
> >Interface has been set up so it subscribes to a larger list.
> 
> StM asks, "Would you like your very own copy of NEWSRDR?  Requires no
> privileges (well, it might require privs if you want to use it to post), takes
> up less than 200 blocks of disk space, and will let you read any newsgroup
> your NNTP server is willing to deal with.
> 
> 

<Jason walks up to STM. He has changed out of the dress whites he wore at
the bonfire for Arty, and is back in his familiar black learher jacket and
slacks.>

Thanks StM,

I never turn down access to software (Stuff that can -legaly- be shared,
that is). Even if it doesn't work well for me, I can usually help someone
else out with it. What platform does it run on? My current systems, at home
and at work, are Macintosh computers running system software 7.0. (A Mac
IIci 5/80 at home, and a Mac LC II 10/80 at work). However, I have Soft-AT
software for my Mac at home, and can easily emulate a 16MHz '286 DOS PC
under DOS 5.0. I also have dial-in access to a VAX (VMS), and can probably
swing access to an account on a dial-in UNIX system that just came on-line.

However, Pegasus may well have solved most of the problem for me today.
Either that, or the SysOp at U of O finally did something to fix ARA
compatibility with TCP. Pegasus discovered to our great joy that as of this
morning, we can now dial in to the V.32bis modem in my office from the one
we have at home, and can now use NewsWatcher freely from home. (No more
half-mile puppet strings and Timbuktu software to muck with!) I assume that
now that this works, we will also be able to FTP from here. My access from
home is now even faster than at my office, because I have a faster system
here than I have there.

<Pegasus gently takes Jason by the arm, and starts guiding him to the
door.>

     Sorry StM, but if Jason doesn't come to dinner right now, I'm feeding
his share to the cats! (Two ea. 14 pound toms, each about 21 inches from
nose to the base of their tails.) He will talk shop all night if I let him.

<As they leave, George the Curious and Harry Underfoot, the cats in
question, appear, and seem determined to trip them as they exit the Place.
Thyra, now a Kazintosh female, approaches StM.>

     I just wanted you to know that all three of us have read your first
post about that devistating medical emergency you recently survived with
much concern. We will comment more on that when we have read the second
installment, which we haven't seen posted yet. I am glad you are up to
posting somewhat normally now. You had us worried.

Jason, Pegasus and
Thyra