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HB is just fine the way it is. [was: RE: The HandyBoard Mailing Lst]
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:46:53 GMT
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Original-From:
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David Kott <dakott@customnet.!saynotospam!net>
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, 1177 wrote:
> The junk mail part is true, but I'm not sure how true it is that you need
> Internet access to read newsgroup. You see, the dialup is regulated by a
> server computer. This computer has different accessible ports. One of them
> is the email port. Another one is the news port, which is port 119. So,
> any thing with an email port should have a news port. Then news reader
> does NOT do any transfer like HTTP (which would be internet). Rather, it
> acts like an email client and connects to the server the same way an email
> program does, just on a diffrent port. Heck, I think that even the
> protocols are similar!
Erm... not quite. I much prefer an email based distribution. I don't
access the net interactively that often. I just queue up my mail, and my
computer autonomously purges each evening while I sleep. If the
handyboard list were a newsfeed, I would be required, at the very least,
to set up yet another process that bulk acquires the latest postings, as
well as my mail. Worse case, I would have to bring up an interactive
session and tie up my phone line to access the latest HB postings. Thank
you, no.
just my (010)b cents.
-d
The box said "Requires Windows 95/NT or better"...
So I got Unix.
Free the Source. Free your Computer... http://www.FreeBSD.org
http://www.NetBSD.org
http://www.OpenBSD.org
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| (...) The junk mail part is true, but I'm not sure how true it is that you need Internet access to read newsgroup. You see, the dialup is regulated by a server computer. This computer has different accessible ports. One of them is the email port. (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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