Re: Spam Cop Problems (have to use shared e-mail with IIe)

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Hi Tom,

    One additional note.  You didn't mention where you live, but if you're
in the Bay Area or maybe in some town that has "Computer User" magazine, a
free publication, there are plenty of ads for dial up accounts.  Of
course, you'll have to check for if shell accounts are available.

    BTW, "going to mainstream", doesn't mean abadoning how you get your
email!  Despite the point and click nature these days, I still use Pine,
nominally a Unix app, as a desktop app on my Win 98 machine to fetch my
email and post to the newsgroup here.  I have never been a fan of web
based email or even clients like Outlook or Eudora.  I find Pine's
keyboard interface just fine for me.  :)

    So good luck and hope you find something that suits your needs! 

Don

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On 8 May 2002, Tom Brown wrote:

>  Folks, The real problem is lack of local access ISP's that support
> this old machine.  As much as I hate to admit it, it may be time to
> sell this beloved antique and just migrate to the main stream.  It is
> annoying to have some outsider, spam cop, interefere with legitimate
> comerce and force people off the net due to lack of connectivity. 
> Spam is a real problem, yet forcing free e-mail users off the web to
> control this seems to be a ploy to end free e-mail.  The reason I use
> this system is that I like the old machine, and locally no ISP that I
> knew of offered shell accounts with dial up access less than 56.6KB, 
> none of the postings reflect this either.  Please keep in mind that I
> am really on a IIe and I have a 14.4BK Modem.  From the referrals I
> see here I still cannot connect to any of them due to modem/hardware
> or locality. (my current situation was a way around this and has
> worked just fine).  If anyone else has knowledge of other isp's that
> offer low speed modem connectivity and shell accounts
> Please let me know.  Thanks.  Tom
> 
> (Please no spam)
>