Around Sun,Dec 15 2002, at 11:00, Beaker (aka Jeff W), wrote: >> Part of dan's problem is that he's using a very old computer. People with new >> computers can easily install linux, people with older computers have better >> luck using older software.Softare that was written around the time that his >> computer was new would likely be easier, however he would be missing out on a >> lot of the benefits of newwer software. > >Actually, Dan's hardware can run a fresh NetBSD/OpenBSD distro no sweat >(heck - he could even run X with wm2 fairly well if he wants to). One >thing though: why download the messages? I believe Dan has an EFN >account, right? He should be able to ssh into EFN and run Pine or Mutt, >no? If yes, then all thats left is the PPP configuration. Even if EFN >doesn't allow Pine/Mutt on their system, there are other alternatives >like freeshell.org which do.
EFN supports shell access, we have Pine and Mutt. He doesn't even need to do PPP to connect to EFN. Roger -- _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
