On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:11:48 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> This is a forward of the test message sent to
> my account at webbox....
> |--- Original Message ---
> |From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> |Date: 1/23/00 8:34:21 PM
> |
> |On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:23:12 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> |
> |> Hello Arachnids:
> |
> |> I checked out the site and my first impression was that it
> is a real good
> |> thing. I decided to sign up. As I was entering my information
> on the form,
> |> I came to a block that requested my private password for my
> email account
> |> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Why should any one other than myself
> need to know
> |> that kind of information? My last impression was that it
> was a bad thing.
> |> So I abruptly aborted the sign up procedure and got out of
> there in a hurry!
> |
> | That's exactly the reaction I had.
> |If I supply them with my username/password. They can now read
> every
> |message sent to me. (d/l every message but leave on server)
> |
> |You might ask: Why would they _want_ to do this???
> |
> |If they see what other kinds of advertisement emails I'm already
> getting.
> |They'll know what my interests are and then know what other
> ads to send.
> |
> |NO THANK YOU, WEBBOX. I'll keep my password to myself !!!
> |
> |BTW, I tried several times to setup an eMail account with them.
> |Every time the attempt failed.
> |"Please try again later". Was all that it would say.
> |
> | Update:
> |
> |It finally worked.
> | You can now send eMail to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> |
> |Use of Arachne for all Email manipulation functions seems to
> |be working.
> |
> |But, file uploads to "WebBox" require html upload capability.
> |(file attachments to eMails also)
> |So for now, we won't be able to use Arachne for those features.
> |
> |--- End Original Message ---
> You may access files for download here....
> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
> Testfile.zip contains the "Arachne-saved" text from
> http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/news-20000119-8.html
> Before saving a file D/Led, you'll need to delete all but the last 8.3
> from the file name.
> --
> Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> North Jackson, Ohio, USA
> Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
> Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
> http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
Hello Glenn:
I don't understand. Do you mean to say that you somehow succeeded in
setting up an account at webbox without your having to give them
the password you normally use for accessing your ISP account and your
email servers at your ISP?
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
