Re: tlug: IMAP

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:

>later would be simple; I don't think netnews is very widely used in
>Japan yet, though. Maybe after the MPT's latest proposal gets put
>into place and everything that enters Japan's net is translated into
>Nihongo before any user sees it (HAH!!).....

No!  Did they really propose that?!  (snortgigglechokechoke)

Quite a few of our users do "read" newsgroups (alt.binaries groups are
popular), and the Japanese newsgroups that are out there do seem fairly well
used.  I don't know what percentage of our members are reading news, but I
know we added several new news servers this year to keep up with things.

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
3Web Channel <URL: http://www.3web.co.jp/index.en.html>

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