There are 8 messages totalling 381 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. New Juno connection limits: ARRRRGH!
2. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
3. Year 2000 (2)
4. Wither Net-equitte? X-no-archive:yes
5. Wither Net-equitte?
6. WWW4-mail questions?
7. Some advice
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:34:57 EST
From: "John A. Jewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Juno connection limits: ARRRRGH!
Hi,
If this is off-topic, apologies, but I just got a very troubling
message from Charles Ardai, Juno's President. Here's an excerpt:
<snip>Like most Internet ventures, however, Juno has not yet reached the
point of profitability, and although we've never been more optimistic
about our long-term prospects, it's important that we watch our costs
very carefully as we continue to grow our revenue base. <snip>
Among our largest expenditures are the telecommunications and other
charges that we incur each time a user (whether free or paying) connects
to Juno's central computers. Although most members connect no more than
once in any given day, a minority connect far more frequently--in some
cases, as much as ten or twenty times per day. We don't mind providing
that level of service, but supporting unusually high levels of activity
without any revenue contribution by the user can be prohibitively
expensive, especially in certain parts of the country where our own costs
are higher than average.
Unfortunately, yours is one such region. In order to help control the
cost of providing free e-mail service in your geographic area, we will be
limiting free e-mail users in this region to a maximum of one connection
per day, effective January 22.<snip>
This new usage limit will not affect subscribers to our Juno Gold
or Juno Web services, since the subscription fees associated with those
services should be sufficient on average to cover our e-mail-related
costs. If you expect to connect more than once a day (at least on some
occasions), you may thus wish to consider signing up for one of these
premium services.<snip>
If you decide not to upgrade to one of our premium services, we
hope you will not be unduly inconvenienced by the new usage limit we are
announcing today. Assuming that you share our assessment of the
importance of providing all Americans with the opportunity to communicate
through Internet e-mail, however, I suspect that you will understand the
need for us to impose this restriction in order to ensure that the
unusually high usage levels of a minority of our subscribers do not
jeopardize our ability to provide such free services to all those who
need them.<snip>
Looks to me like Juno's trying to force frequent email users to
pony up the cash for Juno Gold or Juno Web... I live in the Triangle
region of NC (Raleigh/Durham). Has anyone else gotten this kind of
message? is there some kind of workaround, or is it time to check out
NetZero?
Thanks,
JAJ
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 04:51:35 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Sun 10 Jan 1999, posted Mon 11 Jan, 04:50 GMT/BST
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 06:23:21 +0100
From: Ordog Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Year 2000
Hello accmailers,
I am looking for a _free_ program to check and fix the problem with Year
2000. I am informed that Symantec has one but the free one just checks the
problem.
Thanks in advance.
I.Ordog
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:58:04 PST
From: Lucian Skyeclathde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wither Net-equitte? X-no-archive:yes
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 10 09:50:20 1999
>Approved-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:31:11 EST
>From: William C Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [ACCMAIL] Wither Net-equitte?
>
>Hello All,
> Does anyone Know where I can pull
>a
>document that has a good discussion of Net-equitte
>
>
Dear William:
One of the definitive guides to online netiquette generally, is that of
Arlene H. Rinaldi.
Its URL is: http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/index.html
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Lucian Skyeclathde
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:20:20 -0000
From: Gerald England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wither Net-equitte?
You will find information about netiquette at
http://members.tripod.co.uk/netmiser/maillist.htm
the entry page is
http://members.tripod.co.uk/netmiser/index.htm
Other pages at this site have info on accmail, web design (for accessibility)
spam fighting and telecom matters.
yours
Gerald
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> From: William C Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Subject: Wither Net-equitte?
> Date: 10 January 1999 15:31
>
> Hello All,
> Does anyone Know off hand (**not searched for**) where I can pull
> a
> document that has a good discussion of Net-equitte, especially in
> reference
> to mail lists. I belong to a list that has a lot of Newbie's and people
> that don't realize that they are sending HTML. I wish to send it to the
> list in question on occasion as new people show up, so I don't have to
> respond to individuals.
>
> Thanks to any and all that respond.
> William Andrews
>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:30:49 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Year 2000
At 06:23 AM 1/11/99 +0100, Ordog Istvan wrote the following:
>I am looking for a _free_ program to check and fix the problem
with Year
>2000. I am informed that Symantec has one but the free one just
checks the
>problem.
No program is going to fix your PC. If you have a PC built after
1994 or so, then you probably will not have a problem. Most
motherboards have had an upgraded ROM BIOS such that they will
support the four-character year required when year 2000 rolls around.
The next problem area is your software. Any old OS or programs that
involve date calculations might have problems. Windows 98 is
up-to-date but not all of M$ programs.
Here are some revelant web pages to retrieve:
Microsoft Products Compliant and Compliant with minor issues (787K)
http://www.microsoft.com.../technet/topics/year2k/product/user_compl
iant.htm
Microsoft Products Non-Compliant (57K)
http://www.microsoft.com.../technet/topics/year2k/product/user_nonco
mpliant.htm
Microsoft Products Testing Yet to be Completed (27K) updated 1st
week of each month
http://www.microsoft.com.../technet/topics/year2k/product/testing.htm
Microsoft Products: Testing Not Planned (22K)
http://www.microsoft.com.../technet/topics/year2k/product/nottesting
.htm
Bascially, anything not mentioned in the other documents, Includes DOS
Compliance Information Download Index
http://www.microsoft.com.../technet/topics/year2k/product/user_AllPr
oductsIndex.htm
This page provides links to downloadable product guide files that
are designed for use on your local network. The information in
these files is updated regularly. Therefore, please return here
frequently for the latest Year 2000 compliance information about
Microsoft Products. The following documents were last updated on
January 8, 1999 12:33 AM.
If you need DOS for year 2000 (games most likely), the only OS
provider with a new version of DOS is from IBM. PC DOS 2000
See: http://www.software.ibm.com/os/dos/dos2000/highlights.html
If you are already running IBMs PC DOS 7.0, you can get a free update:
PC DOS 7.0 Fix Pak for Year 2000
See: http://www.ibm.com/IBM/year2000/mkt/des/pcdos7.html
Downloads:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/dos/fixes/dos7.0/year2000/
For other programs, you would have to contact the software maker.
--
Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:09:43 -0500
From: "Francisco P. Chavez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW4-mail questions?
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I'm a newcomer to the ACCMail discussion list.
I usually used the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to retrieve some WWW document so I
should move to another Web retrieve server in order to download WWW
pages, now I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this purpose.
Regarding this WWW server I've two questions.
First, when I used get command in [EMAIL PROTECTED] to retrieve a document I
can read the html document Inline in the body of the message, however
when I navigate using WWW4-mail I receive the html document as an
attachment, so I should click on the link an open the Netscape browser
to see the document. My question is, if there are any command in
WWW4-mail that help me in read or display the html document directly
when I open the e-mail message? I use Netscape Messenger 4.5 as an
e-mail program.
And the second question. I read in the WWW4-mail help file that I can
retrieve a password-protected Web site using the command
protocol://username:password@site/directory but unfortunately I was
unable to download any protected page using this command (I'm deeply
sure that the user and pass i used are correct). So I want to know if
there are any tips to download a password-protected file, or other
WWW-server or if this service is restricted to some WWW-pages.
Thank you in advance for any answer,
Francisco
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:06:12 +0800
From: =?GB2312?B?Qy2zwrGjwPsoV0gp?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Some advice
I like this place of E-mail very much, everyday I can join the discuss
by receiving and sending
E-mails. Yet, I still want this sit be better for everyone and will give
some advice about it.
As I receive those letters, I fount it isn't businesslike. That is to
say, all letters are placed in a
unification letter. It is hard to know which letter is tie in which
another.
Could you ratify my advice?
Wish you happyness.
Yours: Paoli Chan
January ,the 12th,1999
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