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From: alberti@cs.umn.edu (Albatross)
Subject: Re: review of comp.archives in BOARDWATCH magazine May 1991
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.164026.22665@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 16:40:26 GMT
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In <EMV.91Jun3195548@bronte.aa.ox.com> emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>"Another resource of interest is Usenet News Groups.  These act
>somewhat like Fidonet Echomail conferences on BBS systems.

Like saying that a 767 acts "somewhat like" a Piper Cub.

>The
>difference is that there are now over 20000 of them.

Of what, Fido Conferences, news groups, or what?  Where did this figure
come from?

>A program titled
>Read News is used to access them and again the interface is terrible.

This from a Fidonet afficionado?  Ever hear of Net News Reader (for one)?

>The first news group you will want to access is news.lists.  This is
>an updated index of what news groups are available....The second
>newsgroup you want to look at is comp.archives.  This one provides a
>couple thousand messages where individuals describe what file
>collections they have available for anonymous FTP and what the address
>and directory is to locate them."

Spoken like a true Fido user.  "Hey duDez, warez the warez?"

>Boardwatch Magazine, 5970 South Vivian Street, Littleton CO 80127.
>Subscriptions $28/yr for 12 issues.  Internet jack.rickard@csn.org

Why?
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