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My isp, panix.com, has apparently lost all or almost all of its NYC dial-up and DSL lines, with no estimate of when they'll get them back--the ones that weren't actually through the World Trade Center are in a building that's been evacuated.
So we can get in by telnet, if we have access through another system--I'm piggybacking on Andy's Bell Atlantic DSL line. That gets me shell access, which in theory covers just about everything--but I'm not used to doing Usenet that way, and not sure I want to deal with unfamiliar software that won't know which messages I've read. It's also willing to give me Netscape and ICQ, so I'm not out of touch.
So we can get in by telnet, if we have access through another system--I'm piggybacking on Andy's Bell Atlantic DSL line. That gets me shell access, which in theory covers just about everything--but I'm not used to doing Usenet that way, and not sure I want to deal with unfamiliar software that won't know which messages I've read. It's also willing to give me Netscape and ICQ, so I'm not out of touch.