Compuserve Classic is the genuine, original Compuserve network that has its own independent worldwide network. Since Worldcom, which owns AOL, which owns Compuserve (CIS) took over a number of years ago, Compuserve Classic has been using Worldcom (WCom) network nodes, at least in North America.
AOL created Compuserve 2000 as a service which used AOL network resources but Compuserve's name for marketing. CS-2000 uses software that is based on AOL's. For Compuserve Classic users, CS-2000 is just AOL in disguise. Compuserve Classic is still alive and well and though AOL doesn't actively market it, you can still contact Compuserve to obtain a new membership with the classic service. It is worth it - due to the relatively low number of users (3 million), I rarely if ever get a busy signal if I use dial up access, and in the more than 12 years I have been with the service, I can barely recall one solitary incident of mishandled mail. The mail reliability of the CIS Classic service is unbelievably reliable compared to many ISPs out there. Peter Lairo wrote: > > �yvind Berg wrote: > > > Wel,, some of you ppl may have seen this by now, but check > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7573837.html?tag=mn_hd > > I used Cs2000 here in germany until one month ago when I was informed by > compuserve that the cs2000 (imap) service was being discontinued and i > should switch to aol (yeah, when hell freezes over). Oddly, my parents > still use the older compuserve "classic" service (pop3) and they have > NOT been notified that compuserve is closing their doors. > > My cs2k imap mailbox now no longer works. My parent's compuserve pop3 > mailbox DOES still work. Does anyone know what is going on here? > > PS. I now have my own domain and imap mailbox, so i will not be using > any isp anymore anyhow.
