Hello Thomas,
Thursday, January 06, 2000, 6:53:21 AM, you wrote:
TF> OK; I cancelled my subscribtion with Cserve about a year ago. The
TF> reason was, I had a "normal" account first, which you can check
TF> with either the cserve software, or by telnetting and following
TF> their menus. Since I lived in Thailand at that time and they
TF> offered a baud rate of 2400 bps, I finally changed to POP - and
TF> couldn't telnet any more.
You can telnet to the POP server and send the POP commands "by hand"
;-) Like that:
USER your_name
PASS your_pass
LIST: lists the msgs
TOP N M: gets the M first line of msg N� N. (or the other way round, I
always forget)
etc, etc.
LEM>> The only feature it "robbed" you was you couldn't change your
LEM>> address any more.
TF> That was one, the other one was that you couldn't do anything -
TF> anything at all except pop-check your mail - without the cserve
TF> software.
Hu? If you set up the correct log-in script in Win95/98/NT dial-up
networking, you can access the whole internet without the compuserve
software! FTP, ICQ, Web, everything. This has been so for ages now.
(Before, at WinCIM's 2.0 times, that's maybe ... 5 or 7 years) you
could access the Internet OR access compuserve specific areas within
one call). You need(ed) the Compuserve software only to go to
Compuserve-specific areas. (Less and less true now, though: They are
switching to a "private web" model, so you can use Netscape or IE,
with the correct authentification plug-in)
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 :-(
TF> As they pride themselves in being more than an ISP, can you now Have a
TF> pop account *and* telnet?
You now have ONE mailbox, you can access via POP or the compuserve
software (proprietary protocol). And, ah, yes I remember what you are
speaking about now. The so-named "New Mail" system vs the old system
you could access via a TEXT menu, connecting to the compuserve network
via an ASCII (VT-100) emulation (like a BBS) (or telneting to
gateway.compuserve.com)!
Note that if you have another internet connection (you need one to
telnet, don't you?), you can still use the compuserve software to do
everything you wish to.
No, you can't have text-based access AND the "New mail" system. The
"pure text" access seems to be, at least commercially, dropped now. It
is still implemented, but beware: The sign-up program automatically
switches you to the "new mail" system now ;-)
LEM>> That's how my mailbox overflows every holiday, now <g>.
TF> With my ISP's (including this IBM.com), they limit the server
TF> space you can use, not the number of messages.
Compuserve limits both now... Max 10MB/msg, max 30MB total, max 250
msgs.
TF> By the way, can you FTP into your account and save files on the
TF> server?
? Do you mean on your homepage? Maybe, I never tried to do my own
homepage. I can look it up if you wish.
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