10 years and change/use it or lose it

21 Nov 1997

...
    You mean, there's still another educational
institution that uses VAX 
 Notes as a major means of mass communication?

 What's your mailer?  
 One thing, Notes is kind of internal "newsgroups" that you can 
 subscribe while as authorized users logged on there.    
 I know all about it.  I'm required to use it daily, both for work and for 
 class.  I was just surprised to hear of a fellow Notes-user. 
Really!  At least 2 I know of used vaxens and at my college.
This kind is excellent for average students' needs.

...
   The vax email

 program that you write and reply to is PMDF and has POP3 server as 
 well.    
 We have no POP server here (or we do, but we have no dialup PPP service, 
 so it's useless unless you're connected to the network).  We use Dreams as 
 an interface to PMDF, which has its nice features. 
Suggest: Better get that POP3 and PPP set up.  They make vaxens more 
useful. And there's Alpha based vaxens.
That's what exactly my college use right now for past few years now.
POP3 is part of PMDF standard I think. 
When I was visiting my friends back at college I used POP3 to gather 
in my emails including this mailing list from my hometown account.
That made PPP link so useful.

...
   Also it has
newsgroups reader on there but it's too clumsy and 
 hard to use.    
 SLRN can be compiled under VMS (at least, 0.9.0.0 could be).  I find it a 
 lot easier to use than NEWSRDR.

 -- 
 Ben Coakley       http://www.math.grin.edu/~coakley       coakley(a)ac.grin.edu
 Station Manager, KDIC 88.5 FM                                 CBEL: Xavier OH
 It is good to rock. It is very good to rock wearing a big ass pumpkin on your
 head. It is very, very good if that pumpkin is on fire.       --Jessica Stern

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