Hi gangue,
A few years back, I started with an old DOS laptop and CServe (later
taken over by AOL) using Doscim, their then current DOS browser/e-mailer
using a variant of Minuet I seem to remember.
However, someone mentioned their security might be lax. I had three
accounts open with Cserve at the time (you could have up to five, and
the company were paying for the Cserve bill) and the "local" (UK) server
went down, and was down for some weeks.
To alleviate the situation, they shifted the local dial-up number onto
one of the US servers transparently, and stood the extra costs involved
to keep their subscribers. During that interim period I *HAD* to add an
extra account name into the list, not knowing that this transparent
re-routing was taking place, and so that name was registered stateside,
whilst the others, and one more subsequent one were registered here in
the UK.
That particular account forever carried spam mail, porno offers, get
rich quick MLM, you name it garbage. Despite the obvious inference that
this was due to this one out of the five being registered via their US
server, any suggestion their security was lax, or someone was feeding
details out to the spammers, Cserve point blank refused to consider this
a possibility. The account was for an incoming mailbox only, and there
were only ever three e-mails sent FROM the account, it was never used
on a newsgroup or list.
Regards
Mel
