Aaaaahhhh... 'Tis Good to be Back!!!

Checking DECUS is painful at best, there doesn't seem to be any kind of an index, at least not that I've found. I think it was the Freeware CD that I found something at. Check simtel?!?!? I remember the old Simtel-20 DOS archive, but what are you refering to? What can I say, elm is what I got started on. I think the Newsreader is MXRN, it came off the internet solutions for OpenVMS CD-ROM. Isn't FreeForte a Windows app? I'm still trying to find a decent text based newsreader for VMS that doesn't puke, I got one running that looked like it might be OK, but it pukes on the number of newsgroups my ISP carries, before it ever gets through the alt. hierarchy. It's wierd, when using VMS I prefer primarily text based apps, while under UNIX I prefer GUI apps (except 'elm' and 'tin'). Zane