<Email: As part of the new anti-spam movement, many services are upgrading their mail servers to require SSL-based (encrypted) communication. If your email provider does this, you may need to upgrade your email client - and the SSL-capable ones that I know of require OS 9 or later.>
Hmmmm. I'm using Claris Emailer (both 7200 and PB) here. Only difference is that I have 2.0 on the 7200 and 1.0 on the PB. Does this mean that if I don't upgrade, I won't be able to do email any more? Yikes!
When the time comes, you'll still have options. If your provider doesn't make the security features optional, you can upgrade your system & client, or subscribe to a different email service altogether...
<Surfing the web: The older Java engines are quite buggy. The browsers that run on OS 8 have serious problems with web sites that use the newer forms of HTML & CSS etc. Those older browsers don't have updated security certificates, so more and more "https" sites (banking etc) are becoming inaccessable.>
Yeah, this I've run into. I already know I can't upgrade the Netscape 4.04 on my 7200 because I'm only running 8.1, and on and off I play with iCAB because I get sick of the javascript errors I get on Netscape. But I also find that (and I thank my bf for this) having turned off "Enable Javascript" in the Netscape Advanced preferences has helped a lot. Still though, I do have to admit that I've lost my taste for web surfing: I never do it "for fun" any more, I only do it when I have to research something or hope to find a free d/l of something (like I did to get CarbonLib).
I love iCab. Frustrated that it doesn't handle CSS and big JavaScripts well tho. Makes it impossible to use on many sites, including eBay. :\ Now I'm supplementing it with Mozilla (what Netscape became)(which requires OS 9).
<AIM: AOL's new client requires OS 9. AOL has announced they're preparing to upgrade their server systems over the next year or so, to "enhance" privacy and add features. They've said that the older client versions will no longer be able to connect.>
Oh, great, this is all I need to hear. (how do you do a sarcastic smile, LOL). My story-writing partner-in-crime and I do a lot of AIM chatting and frequently transfer files to one another. This is because she's on PC and the cross-platform transfer prohibits our emailing attachments: she can't read mine, and I can't read hers. The only way we can exchange drafts is via AIM file transfer of an .rtf formatted document.
hum. IRC might be the better route for you. You could make yourself a private (passworded) channel on one of the IRC networks. Or connect to the IRC network then just use DCC sessions (1:1 chat and file transfer). DCC is totally private because it's a direct connection between you; the server connection is only used to initiate the dcc sessions.
For format compatibility... AppleWorks 5 requires System 7.0.1 or later, and comes with a number of Word translators. You could each save files in one of those Word formats... Might be better / easier than rtf?
FWIW, - Dan.
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