On 23 Jul 00 at 3:43, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>I was able to reach http://freewwweb.snap.com as normal July 22 (0600 GMT),
>>but http://home.freewwweb.com redirected to a different destination this
>>time: welcomefw.juno.com, that site was not accessible. I was using DOS
>>Lynx386. Since http://home.freewwweb.com redirected to freewwweb.snap.com, I
>>used that latter "home page" to save a step, figuring that was the actual
>>home page. This was using DOSPPPD (EPPPD & CHAT) dialer from OS/2 Warp 4
>>VDM. Reason for dialing from DOS was to see if Arachne 1.66 for DOS was
>>ready. Trying to access news server news.freewwweb.com produced the error
>>message "Remote host reset connection", and then trying to access
>>pop3.freewwweb.com froze the computer. After rebooting, I found the date was
>>July 22. 1994, which I promptly reset at the command prompt. I have never
>>known Arachne to alter the date when crashing, but DOS Lynx386 and UKA_PPP
>>1.7x1 have changed the year to 1994 or 2094, so now I check the date every
>>time after rebooting following a DOS Internet program crash.
>>
>>My DOS dialer .BAT file for Freewwweb puts the regular Freewwweb DNS IP
>>numbers in WATTCP,CFG. http://freewwweb.snap.com worked like normal, but
>>not http://freewwweb.home.com.
>>
>>Does anybody know what will happen to Freewwweb SMTP and POP3 servers with
>>the acquisition by Juno? What about the news server? Is there any
>>news.juno.com or anything comparable? Does Juno have POP3 and SMTP, or only
>>a proprietary interface?
Juno's email is proprietary and accessible with a web based
interface. I was able to access my FreeWWWeb POP3 mail with Arachne
saturday. I think that after a period of time (a month, perhaps) to
allow occasional users to find out about the change, the servers
will be shutdown and incoming mail forwarded to a FreeWWWeb users
new Juno address. If no Juno account exist for the former FreeWWWeb
accounts I think the sender will probably get one of those permanent
fatal error messages with the returned mail. BTW, your Snap.Com page
is still accessible directly at http://snap.com. Of course you will
have to login the first time and if you have cookies enabled they
will set a cookie that will allow you to access "your" snap.com page
without logging in manually. I do not know about whether Juno has any
news server.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I'm not tense, just terribly alert.
This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client
WWWWW World Wide Web Without Windows
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