dean@apt.bungi.com (Dean Welder) (01/10/91)
I currently have a gracious friend that is letting me use an account on a remote system with a USENET hookup. However, the company I work for is looking to get a connection of our own and I have been given the responsibility of researching this. So my question(s) are as follows: 1) Is there a better news group that I should post these questions to? 2) How do we go about getting connected to USENET; 3) Can we use a 386/486 AT Style machine (hopefully MS-DOS based because we don't have any UNIX gurus to help us) w/ modem and a large hard disk to receive/store NEWS and mail. and then connect it to our already existing MS-DOS based Novell network in such a way that access is available to all users? 4) What extra software (mail programs, news readers, etc) are required/recommended. 5) Any other general reccomendations? NOTE: Please mail responses to me - the news system at the gracious friends system is far enough away from 100% relialibility that I don't want to risk missing an informative post. Thanks ahead of time, Dean Welder /*sorry, no fancy .sig yet*/ internet: dean@apt.bungi.com uucp: {apple,sun,pyramid}!daver!apt!dean voice: (W) (408) 943-9301 (H) (408) 268-1994 snail mail: 1041 Bret Cove CT, San Jose CA, 95120