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OCR: Introduction Introduction MacSOUP is an offline reader for news and mail. "Offline" means that you transfer all the unread news and mail one batch (which only takes couple of minutes) and then you hang up and read without having to stay connected all the time This can reduce your phone bills consi derably MacSOUP can work with different kinds of net connections: either with a Unix shell account to which you login with terminal program, or with a Mac TCP or Open Transport connection (SLIP PPP Ethernet or Apple Talk) The latter what most people will use nowadays and it's more convenient, because MacSOuP doep everything itself With Unix shell account you first have run program on the Unix side that collects your news and mail into SOUP packet (Simple Offline Usenet Protocol) then you download ...