From: Gary Wiltshire 

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:17:22 -0600, John Cuccia  wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2003 08:11:14 GMT, Winston Smith
Winston.Smith{at}harborwebs.com> wrote:
>> From what I glean, the ElfLords play games with Barktopia's backbone to
>> choke it off, and the Sysop's node is popping in and out of the master
>> nodelist table like a pogo stick.  I wonder if the politics is effecting
>> the feed?  You could always poll direct for mail exchange.  Hmm...  is
>> it
>> worth messaging the Sysop about?
>
> Why not just grab a free newsreader (Free Agent, for one, if you are
> running a Windows variant) and point it at news.barkto.com.  That
> eliminates the middleman and whatever kinds of petty politics infect
> the remnants of Fidonet.
>
>
>

I recently changed over to using Opera's reader which I now prefer.  Either
is good and both are free.

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Gary Wiltshire

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