OT: Newsreader for Windows

[Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez]

Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
>>> Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
>> I don't know.
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>> Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system that frequently charged for access seems counterproductive to me.
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> 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.
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> Zane
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My USENET reading in the late 80's and early 90's was crucial to my 
development as a numerical scientist, way before there were other 
venues.  At the time, one would "download" packages from NETLIB by 
sending an email with the right commands to the NETLIB mail server and 
would receive an email with pure-ascii-encoded files... additionally to 
the comp.sources* hyerarchy...  and I recall that many of the people in 
this list posted back then.

carlos.