From: peter da silva (peter@ferranti.com)
Date: 10/23/92


From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 14:34:23 GMT

In article <8etONsm00VohMRqmFq@andrew.cmu.edu> sward+@CMU.EDU (David Reeve Sward) writes:
> I can't just ftp, compile
> and run another newsreader either, since CMU has some
> highly-non-standard news setup (AMS - Andrew Mail System) which would
> require some major hacks on the existing newsreaders to get them to
> function properly.

So install an NNTP-based reader and read your news via NNTP from some site
that follows standards instead of making you be a pioneer.

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