On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:23:26 -0500 (EST), Norman C. Leet wrote:
> There are a growing number of "Free Internet ISPs" showing up
> in recent months, however they all seem to require Windows 95/98
> as a pre-requisite (to support the advertising scheme, I would
> suppose).
Juno email is one of the popular free internet services that actually
does require Windows.
> Has anyone come across a "free ISP" that can accessed via Arachne
> from a DOS based machine?
Hello:
We have found that almost all ISPs will support Arachne, even though
we are told by the ISP's technical support experts that they don't
support DOS. My own ISP doesn't support DOS, yet I have not encountered
any difficulties in using the ISP with about seven or eight entirely
different DOS internet clients.
When they tell you that they don't support DOS, all that usually means is
that they won't help you and that they probably don't even know how to
help you, and that even if they did know how to help, they wouldn't. Most
of the people on the list would agree with my opinion on this matter.
I don't know if the "free" ISPs tend to be any different from the others
in this regard.
You will simply just have to try to connect with the ISP and find out for
yourself whether it works with Arachne. If you have any luck, then please
let us know. Don't believe anything the technical support people tell you.
They would prefer to just give you the wrong answers than to admit that
they don't even know the right answers. They are very much afraid of
appearing to be ignorant. They think that if they give you some answers
you will think that they are smart. They are too ignorant to realize that
you are smart enough to determine whether their answers are correct. After
all, since they are the technical experts, they have every reason to expect
you to simply accept their answers and not to conduct any further
investigations and experiments on your own. Arachne will provide you with
some most valuable lessons on why you should always question authority.
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
