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From: Peter Ceresole on 13 May 2010 15:07 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Yes, POP3 sounded so exotic. What a concept, pulling down your own mail > rather than prodding their mail server to push it at you. The greatest surprise was, of course, that Real Men used smtp- and in theory it was erat. But real life said that if you were receiving less than several hundred emails at a time, then POP3 was *so* much nicer. -- Peter
From: Duncan Kennedy on 13 May 2010 15:45 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: > > > Demon started out with SMTP in both directions > > Oh lord, that's true. On the Mac I used Addmail (thank the lord for Alan > Staniforth) plus Eudora- and I'm still using Eudora of course. Plus I > remember using ToadNews and TheNews... And before that, in MSDOS, KA9Q- > which was astonishingly good, actually. > I used KA(Q from a magazine disk at first - before the Windows suite - before Turnpike. Been using Turnpike on Windows ever since. What suddenly struck me was the need to kick MacSOUP with Command+K - just likt the Contr+k to kick the news server in DOS. -- duncank
From: Peter Ceresole on 13 May 2010 17:53 Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: > What suddenly struck me was the need to kick MacSOUP with Command+K - > just likt the Contr+k to kick the news server in DOS. Konnect, innit? -- Peter
From: Duncan Kennedy on 14 May 2010 07:16
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: > > > What suddenly struck me was the need to kick MacSOUP with Command+K - > > just likt the Contr+k to kick the news server in DOS. > > Konnect, innit? Certainly that was one of the suite. I think I still have a 486 upstairs that uses it. At a later date Turnpike changed its Winsock and I ws one of a very few who couldn't connect but Richard Clayton spent some time with the winsock supplier in the US until it worked. -- duncank |