Re: Apple II Email (Network Connections)

[brobstona@wartburg.edu]

In article <545ovc$ik6@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes:
>derek@slab.cisco.com (Derek Taubert) wrote:
>>In <544e4o$acl@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us> Dave Althoff wrote:
>>I agree 100% with the above evaulation of the situation.  It would be so much 
>>easier to write a mail client to use simple ASCII transfers over a serial 
>>line and a corresponding server on the Unix end than to try to coax an Apple 
>>][ to speak TCP/IP.
>
>This has already been done.  Take a look at the Proline bulletin board system.
>It can be programmed to periodically send and retrieve email and usenet from
>a UNIX box.
>
>The best solution is to have a SSC on every ][e, running copies of Proline.
>The software can be set to retrieve mail/news every hour.  Each ][e would
>have a serial connection to the server.
>
>If there are too many Apples for simultaneous connection, you can even set
>some Apples to log on at one part of the hour and others to log on when they
>log off.

Another good program that could be set up this way is METAL/FV, available
from galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu. It is an entire bulletin board
system that can be programmed very simply to do various tasks such as
the one you describe.

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Andy Brobston (a.k.a. Tinman)
My views do not reflect the views of Wartburg College as a whole.