On 17 Mar 00 at 23:46, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>>> Yes, I agree, Glenn and I got Arachne working fine with Freewwweb
>>> last night also. It is important for us that use their service to
>>> honor the requirement to make their web site our home page. It is
>>> after all an honor system. BTW, I am not going to use
>>> Freewwweb for my regular email as I still prefer being a customer and I
>>> don't want my local ISP to go out of business. I did not try the terminal
>>> login, but PAP/CHAP works fine for me.
>>
>> Weeeellll..... you just might want to rethink that view-point
>>when you hear what I've discovered.
>>
>> Go to http://home.freewwweb.com/
>>You will be redirected to http://freewwweb.snap.com/
>>Which is precisely the same as http://www.snap.com/
>>
>>Yes, you guessed it......
>>Freewwweb is Snap.com
>>Snap.com is NBC
>>NBC is owned by Microsoft.
>>
>> Hence, Freewwweb is Microsoft.
Thanks for the info, Glenn. Another good reason to keep my local ISP
in case they do what they did to hotmail.com, i.e. make it unuseaable
for our browser of choice. I figured there was some connection, as I
set up my personal snap.com page last night. I don't think it is
EXACTLY accurate to say that NBC is OWNED by Microsoft. I know they
are engaged in certain and various partnerships projects.
Nevertheless, it is something to keep in mind. Still though, I do
think it is a fair proposition to expect users to go to their page
first and I don't intend to change that.
>>But as the old saying goes, "Every dark cloud has a silver lining".<g>
>>They _did_ have one good link.(even if it is to an old version)<vbg>
>>
>>http://www.snap.com/download/item/0,22,home-904179-0-10001,501000.html
Also remember, "no good deed goes unpunished"! ;) Thanks for the link.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I started out with nothing...I still have most of it.
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