[ale] Which OS for PPP to ISP?

tfreeman tfreeman at vnet.net
Sat Jun 1 19:51:53 EDT 1996


While I have been running xfmail from 
http://Burka.NetVision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html
and found it usefull, popclient and suck sound
like a possibly better solution for me. Do you have pointers
or is it archie time?

Thanks.

On Fri, 31 May 1996, Zot O'Connor wrote:

> For mail, popcleint will download all the mail to a local file,
> mkae that file you local mailbox and point pine to that.
> 
> Popcleint is available for most systems.
> 
> For mail you can use something like suck to grab which
> news articles you want onto the local system, its like running
> your own feed.
> 
> Both of these can be cron'ed to ru late at night, or hourly.
> 
> 
>  Martin B. Brilliant at home in Holmdel, NJ
> I grew up in Middletown!
> 
> -- 
> Later,
> ZOT                                                        zot at crl.com
> Home Page:   http://www.crl.com/~zot/home.html
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