Hi Lionel,
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:55:33 +0100GMT (05/01/2000, 22:55 +0800GMT),
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
TF>> (I know with Compuserve, you would have to apply for a POP
TF>> account, which robs you of some other features.)
LEM> False. I'm on Compuserve, and using my account via POP didn't rob me
LEM> any feature. This is relatively new, though.
OK; I cancelled my subscribtion with Cserve about a year ago. The
reason was, I had a "normal" account first, which you can check with
either the cserve software, or by telnetting and following their
menus. Since I lived in Thailand at that time and they offered a baud
rate of 2400 bps, I finally changed to POP - and couldn't telnet any
more.
LEM> Former, you had to create a second mailbox, you could access via POP.
LEM> The "compuserve" mailbox and the "POP" mailbox were separate, but you
LEM> could redirect the compuserve mailbox to the POP mailbox. The only
LEM> feature it "robbed" you was you couldn't change your address any more.
That was one, the other one was that you couldn't do anything -
anything at all except pop-check your mail - without the cserve
software.
LEM> Now (since late June 1999), the two mailboxes have been merged, and
LEM> you can access it either via the compuserve software, or via POP, as
LEM> you wish when you wish. A by-effect, the POP mailbox is now limited to
LEM> 250 messages :-(
As they pride themselves in being more than an ISP, can you now Have a
pop account *and* telnet? Also, in the beginning, they were the first
ones to give me access to Lufthhansa flight schedules or German
Railways schedules and booking, and so forth; that was mny reason to
stay with them. I can do that via the Internet now without a cserve
account.
LEM> That's how my mailbox overflows every holiday, now <g>.
With my ISP's (including this IBM.com), they limit the server space
you can use, not the number of messages. By the way, can you FTP into
your account and save files on the server?
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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