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[MigMac]

Now that I have a working MacOS921 VM I'd like to explore some 'forgotten' zones of the net like Usenet and BBS. Things I didn't even do when I had a G3 iMac 25 years ago !!  I tried gopher with Turbogopher, works fine.

Any fine client for Usenet? BBS? Do they require special configs?

thanks

[Knezzen]

Have you read this great article by Bolkonskij? It's a good starting point for Usenet on Mac OS 9

[MigMac]

Hello

missed you on Hotline this morning

yes I read it, very interesting. I registered at Eternal-September.org but didn't get the password via email (as they say, might be blocked by the provider )...

I will continue searching to get some access somewhere using AppleFritter and others...

cheers

[Knezzen]

Very strange. What email provider do you have? I know it turned up in the spam folder on my Gmail account.

There are some great suggestions in this thread over at System 7 Today as well. I use MT-NewsWatcher on all my System 7 - Mac OS 9.2.2 machines. It's the by far most feature rich client out there for Classic Mac OS. On OSX I tend to use Unison from Panic Software (who gave us the FTP client Transmit amongst other things).

Happy Usenet surfing

[MigMac]

Believe it or not I used an .me.com addy (Apple!) and nothing came

I'll have another go with another email service. Thanks for the link to that thread, I'll open accounts with those Usenet 'providers', dump some of the apps I put on my OS9 and use MT-NewsWatcher instead, it looks neat !