Conference vmszoo::flying

    Well it seems i'm not the only one that noticed this phenomena.
    Now these days people are transferring to EXCHANGE and forget about
    their VAX acco8nt. (for me I'm still browsing through the notes files
    and it still is a valuable source for all kinds of information to me.
    Would hate to see that this source would die due to lack of interest or
    is it a lack of knowoing these files even exist.
    If the latter is the case then we shoudl educate these newcomeres and
    inform them about this wealth of information in all kinds of area's.
    But on the otherhand - if no new VAX accounts are issued - how should
    they be able to get acces to them ?
    Any suggestions  ?
    Cees van der Leeuw
    

    Well, as I mentioned, there are actually two ways to access notes from
    a PC, besides an actual PC Notes client, which I think used to be a
    part of Pathworks (and that I know nothing about):
    
    You can use your web browser and the following URL syntax:
    
    		http://www-notes.lkg.dec.com/vmszoo/flying/
    
    Where you change the last two components to indicate the node name and
    the conference name.  You can also add a note number and a reply number
    to go to a specific note.
    
    Also, to facilitate finding conferences (even better than
    Easynotes.lis), you can use the URL:
    
    		http://www-esn.lkg.dec.com/decnotes/
    
    which has a real nice categorized listing of Notesfiles available, all
    hot-linked and ready to go.
    
    Also, many Notesfiles are available through the net news gateway, and
    can be accessed using a standard news reader application (comes
    standard with Netscape and Explorer).  I haven't done this, but I'm
    sure you've seen notes with a note news sig appended to it.
    
    Another one I just thought of is to use Excursion to run Notes in
    Windows (Motif) mode, so it looks sort've like a windows app.  However,
    this still requires you have a VMS account, even if you don't know how
    to use it.
    
    So, there *are* ways for non-VMS users to access notes.  Unfortunately
    I feel that the experience is not quite the same.
    
    jeb
    

    Someone pointed out to me that you can't post to FLYING from a news
    reader.  Of course, that might suit the RO community just fine.
    
    BTW, although this conference may be quiet, it certainly seems to have
    a healthy readership.  Thanks to all you RO noters for "breaking your
    silence".  Its good to know that noting in this conference is not like
    typing with one finger (sorry, I never undeerstood Zen very well :-).
    
    jeb
    

There are a couple of Windows based notes clients (and servers).  You don't need 
a VMS system at all for hosting or reading/replying to a notes conference.

Dave
(whose been using NETNOTES on Windows NT for the last 2 years)

    Are there any free (or at least, free to Digital) PC Notes clients?
    
    I'm hearing rumors about our VMS accounts going away.  :-(
    
    jeb
    

Yes, NETNOTES.  There's a notes conference on it somewhere.  NETNOTES is from 
OSTECH, but Digital has a corporate license to use it.  There's a special key 
you have to enter to enable it.

If you can't find it, let me know and I'll point you to a copy.

    To answer my own question, the conference to discusses the product is
    at:
    		ISVNET::NETNOTES
    
    jeb