-=> Bj”rn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> Really?  So every OS (and variation) comes with a news client
 DC> pre-installed and ready to go?

 DC> You sure about that?

 BF>    Pretty much so, yes. At least far more than with a
 BF> pre-installed FTN client.

You're wrong.  Tell me what news client is pre-installed (or comes 
stock with the OS) on *ANY* version of Windows.  In case you 
aren't aware of it, Windows is by far the most-used OS...

Many/most Linux distributions do come with some kind of news 
client, but not all of them.  I honestly don't know if MacOS has 
it there by default, but I would guess not.

Oh, another thing.  You don't need a "FTN client" to access 
Fidonet echos.  You just need to be able to telnet to a BBS (or 
call it with dial-up). You can use (often built-in) telnet 
functions, or clients like Putty, Syncterm, etc.   Much simpler, 
on ANY OS, to do than installing/configuring/using a newsreader
client.  Very few people know anything about news/Usenet.

Are you seriously this far out of touch that you don't know these 
things?  Or are you just playing your games some more?


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