Hello Thomas Fernandez,
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:53:21 +0800 GMT your local time,
which was Thursday, January 06, 2000, 12:53:21 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Thomas Fernandez wrote:
Thomas> Hi Lionel,
Thomas> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:55:33 +0100GMT (05/01/2000, 22:55 +0800GMT),
Thomas> 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.
Thomas> OK; I cancelled my subscribtion with Cserve about a year ago. The
Thomas> reason was, I had a "normal" account first, which you can check with
Thomas> either the cserve software, or by telnetting and following their
Thomas> menus. Since I lived in Thailand at that time and they offered a baud
Thomas> rate of 2400 bps, I finally changed to POP - and couldn't telnet any
Thomas> more.
Thomas, not sure about Compuserve, as I never had the chance to use
the system but as you will know AOL has a different setup, even worse.
if you want to use it in Thailand it means essentially calling
Singapore...
By pure accident I ended up with a macintosh customer who had been
setup for AOL in the states and thus wanted a local account..
After a few weeks his mac stuff kind of corrupted and he wanted to go
to the web but no way could I get the normal dialin to work to the
local isp.
So I changed the dialin for AOl to call the local isp number and ip's.
He ended up logging in locally, zapped off to AOL and then via the AOL
webmenu we went to hotmail where his mail was sitting...
I did it again on a PC which was working ok and as far as I know if
you AOL HAS been setup and is working, nothing prevents you to use a
local dialin and then run your AOL browser to do whatever you want to
do in AOL.
Ok, you pay for AOL and local isp (maybe, as I never had the chance
to check that as I never saw bills...).
Presumably one gets stuck for the minimum charge..
Anyway, there is absolutely NO need for long distance calls, slow
lines and local censorship or whatever keeps a local dialin for AOL
away.
If this same trick works with Compuserve, no idea, try it...
My customers were happy as it saves them fortunes as all their mail
was going AOL, they travelled and they wanted to keep it that way!
Thomas> With my ISP's (including this IBM.com), they limit the server space
Thomas> you can use, not the number of messages. By the way, can you FTP into
Thomas> your account and save files on the server?
Most accounts, no idea about compuserve , let you do that if you know
where the mailbox is.
I use it all the time for ftp.
I even used it to get my betas of 98 downloaded that way...
Best regards,
tracer
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