Re: [MiNT] MiNT-Net + GEM + Newsgroups?

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu>]

> I know what a cli is... I'm using NOS right now (the text-only version). But
> NOS has a few problems: It's incompatible with MiNT-Net; I always have to
> choose between surfing/ftp-ing (with aFTP) and managing e-mail/news and I can
> do nothing while NOS is working. And the worst problem is that the author is
> about to drop the development, beside that I don't like the GEM way the author
> has recently followed.

The GEM version of NOS is called ICE, but I thought NOS and ICE
developed on independantly (I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a new
version of Atari NOS appear, when was it, a year ago?)

Anyway, if you would want to continue using Oasis (or any other
mail/newsreader that works with NOS), you could replace NOS with
Popwatch (or was it Fetchpop? I always get those two mixed up). :) The
program I mean is able to retrieve mail (and there was also a news
version I think) in NOS format, among others. IIRC it's for STiK but can
be used with Gluestik. So in fact there is a NOS->MiNTnet gateway. :)

Then again you'd probably better stick to aMail.. you must have noticed
by now that Oasis is terribly buggy. And to make things worse, all the
bugs I found in Oasis 1 are still present in Oasis 2. :-)


On an off-topic side note: Is it really necessary to mirror the MiNTlist
on a newsgroup (muc.lists.mint)? I am now receiving spam on my new
bassment.nu email address, and the only place I made this address known
so far is the MiNTlist. So... :)

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