From: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re:      Re: Mailers to comp.sys.amiga.<sig>
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Date: 21 Aug 92 01:14:45 EST
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Quoted from <...unknown> by         Dan Szkola <A02DJS1@NOC.NIU.EDU>:
> --->Date:       Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:22:15 EST
> --->Reply-to:   Info-Amiga List <I-AMIGA@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
> --->From:       Carlos Amezaga <overlord@MEGALITH.MIAMI.FL.US>
> --->Subject:    Re: Mailers to comp.sys.amiga.<sig>
> --->To:         Multiple recipients of list I-AMIGA
>  <I-AMIGA@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
> 
> --->Quoted from <...unknown> by         uel111r2a%tferi4@UNI-LJ.AC.MAIL.YU:
> --->> Is there any other way to RECEIVE usenet groups on internet?
> --->
> --->
> --->    Yes, you can always set up your Amiga for UUCP and get a feed
> --->from some University or other institution.  My machine is set up as a
> --->UUCP site.  I provide News and Mail links mainly to other BBSes in my
> --->area.  I use Amiga Elm for mail and Tnews to read news.  Pretty simple.
> --->                                    ^^^^^
>     Where did you get Tnews. Is it better than Cnews or GRn?

	I got Tnews from the Author himself who is in New Zealand.  I
don't use GRn because the program is built around higher resolution
monitors.  If you are using a plain 1084 as I am, the area left over to
read articles is this big:

 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % The Box around this text is the same size as that the  %
 % box in which readble news is displayed.  This is not   %
 % very comforting for my eyes or patience.               %
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	GRn has a real good user interface, but I would rather be able to
read more of the post at one time, rather to being limited to reading a
post a bit at a time and having to scroll to read the rest by scrolling
with my cursor keys constantly.  With a Higher resolution monitor, you
have a bigger Text display area.  I also hate so many features,
especially when I am not going to be using all of them.  Arn is another
good program, but I don't like the fact that I need to have a news daemon
lurking in the background to see if changes have occured in the UUNEWS
directory.  (You don't need this program, but it is highly recomended you
do.)  Tnews is a much simpler program to use, and displays the article
without the distraction of the Nice user interface.  The Pre-Configured
colors of Tnews are Ugly to my taste, but are easy on your eyes.  I have
set my own colors which are also easy on my eyes and not as Ugly. :-)
The Author is also a pleasure to write mail to. Tnews is easy to set up,
and has some nice features of its own.  I like being able to mask out
certain header information which I think is nonsense anyway.  Makes the
reading of the more important header information easy, like the From and
Subject header lines in news.

	You folks would like me to send you Tnews, I would be happy to do
so.  Just send E-Mail and I will beam it over. :-)

Carlos
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