10 years and change/use it or lose it - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 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.

...
  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.

...
  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.

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