KvE>   Using telnet to access a newsserver is not too difficult, but not very
 KvE>   practical either.

   True. But accessing my BBS (the oldest one still operational in Sweden
according to Swedish Wikipedia) using telnet, would exclude Michiel's requisite
of "terminal program" access, wouldn't it?


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