From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Jimmy Anderson wrote:   
   >   To: Mike Easter   
   > -=> Mike Easter wrote to alt.os.linux.mint <=-   
   >   
   > ME> From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mint   
      
   Do you have an interest in connecting to this newsgroup /directly/?   
      
   That is, if you are running Mint it is very easy and free to use an   
   agent which is 'built-in' to the default Mint and register with a nntp   
   news server which is free and correspond much more easily than your route.   
      
   As I understand from reading your headers and your sig section, you are   
   corresponding here via telnet + Palantir BBS + Synchronet  + NewsLink;   
      
   I don't know what the relationship is between synchronet/newslink and   
   astraweb (an nntp server provider system), but 'conventionally' astraweb   
   is not free to users, and since astraweb is a highwinds provider your   
   headers here make sense.  But there ARE free providers available to you.   
      
   The idea being, using Mint and its agent Thunderbird and an account you   
   registered with eternal-september free nntp usenet provider, it would be   
   'easier' for your correspondence with this group.   
      
   But, I don't know exactly how you go about telnetting into your BBS. If   
   I were going to do it, my connectivity would be the same broadband cable   
   internet connection I use for browser.  But maybe you use telnet via   
   dialup, which would be very slow for a browser which would make the   
   registration for free nntp service a problem.   
      
   The bottom line is, do you telnet by dialup or something faster?  Or are   
   you in some remote location that does not have 'good' connectivity to   
   the internet?   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)