Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
I don't know.
Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system that
frequently charged for access seems counterproductive to me.
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.
Zane
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.
