Subj : Newsgroups?
To   : Andrea Santos
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Jul 31 2001 02:52 am

->>  AS> Even without gating, you shouldn't have to use more than 2
->>  AS> Readers to access both Fidonet and Newsgroups.  Granted, dislike
->>  AS> Outlook immensely, but also don't read newsgroups, so don't use
->>  AS> it. ;-)

->> outlook is c^HCrap in many ways... on the win platform, xnews is a
->> very good choice for reading news...

 AS> Haven't looked at it.

if you're thinking about doing newsgroups, you should... it even has 
"moderator" capabilities... very nice and actively being developed... when i 
first got it, i was getting new versions every couple of days... i didn't 
really have to but i was... i need to go over and get the latest some time 
within the next week or so...

->>  AS> If you can accomplish the mail fix, all from one location,
->>  AS> it's a good setup.

->> its what some are wanting to offer via fido and any other means
->> possible...

 AS> Yup.

and as such, aren't we creating a need and then fullfilling that need?

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