At 5/29/00 9:22:00 AM you wrote: >On 29 May 00 at 12:42, Matt Bahls wrote: > >>>Hi all, >>>This has been a big topic of discussion on the Freenet list I am on for the >>>last couple of days. I will try to summarize what is believed to have >>>happened and then give some brief news on what is happening now. > >What is the Freenet list you are on? How to subscribe? It's a list on egroups. I think the address to subscribe is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mostly Win9X Free ISPs are discussed, but occassionally a jem that works for all systems like Freewwweb and 1Nol are discussed. >>>You also must reregister if you were >>>registered before. The theory here is that Sisna took the user database >>>with them. Also, as Dale mentioned, a bunch of dialup numbers have been >>>deleted. (I am going to check in a matter of seconds if mine is still >>>there.) There was some mention that they are looking at Hispanic users more >>>than anything, so if you live in a big Hispanic area, you probably will have >>>more luck with your number. I just checked out their site and there is a >>>pop-up window showing their "improvements" I will cut and past it at the >>>end of this message. > >They've improved the damn thing so much it's near useless now. ;) That's pretty much the concensus on the FreeNET list too. One of the moderators that also runs a Win3.1 list and uses Linux was pretty upset with them and he is generally a pretty easygoing person (at least on list.) >>>I am in the process of reregistering (I just saw my local number is gone as >>>well.). Anyway, it was reported on the Freenet list that if that you can >>>connect using the following user info: >>> >>>Username: user@1nol (use your username for user) >>>Password: yourpassword with xms added to the end. (So if your password is >>>chucky, you would enter chuckyxms.) >>> >>>It's not known at this time if this will work for all time or if it will be >>>changed or what, so be advised. >Thanks for the details, Matt. Please post again your successs using >1NOL with Arachne. It won't do me much good personally, but it will >certainly benefit others on the list. I'm not going to try it either since my local number is gone. Maybe if I get around to it, I will dial up one of the long distance numbers just to see if it works. If I do that I will let you all know. Matt
