From: htoaster@yabbs
To: honkfish@yabbs
Subject: re: client
Date: Tue Mar  1 22:46:26 1994

In message client, honkfish said:
> Could you tell me how a computer illiterate like myself gets a client 
> because I am fed up of not being able to get into yabbs on an evening...

the best way would be to find a computer literate person at your campus
to help you out.  I'm sorry about the restrictions, but they really are
making a big difference in how loaded down yabbs is.  When you consider that
this machine is just a 486sx/25 (probably less powerful that what many of you
use in your public labs) allowing 20 users on isn't that restrictive.

To get the client you'll need to know what sort of system you are running
on (it has to be a unix based system, but beyond that, who makes it, etc).
You'll also have to know how to use ftp.  Once you know this ftp to 
phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu and look in /pub/yabbs/clients at the file called README.
get the client corresponding to your system, and run it.

If anyone has an internet machine that they are a sysadmin of and would be
willing to let other yabbs users access yabbs through their machine I'd be
glad to help them set it up.  It would be cool to have a machine that people
can bounce off of on the west coast and one in europe somewhere, since this
would speed up percieved reaction time pretty greatly.

alex