OT: Newsreader for Windows

Zane Healy healyzh at avanthar.com
Thu Apr 1 23:34:52 CDT 2021



> On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
>> Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system that frequently charged for access seems counterproductive to me.


Considering my original USENET access was at $6 per hour, I’m not entirely sure I agree. :-)  Then again that’s also why we used to be able to download and upload messages for offline reading.

Zane




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