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by :   WizOp Adrienne C.
3/9/07

votes :   52
Latest :   Oct-25

Q: How Do You Access The Forum?

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#2 of 47 Posted 3/9/07 12:27 PM

From Dupa T. Parrot Posts 1470 Last Nov-20
To WizOp Adrienne C. [Msg # 106498.2 106498.1 ]

I access the forums using Mozilla Firefox via my ISP.

I had a CompuServe Classic account from 1979 to 2004 but had it put down when forum hosting was moved to Prospero.

Da Boid (DupaParrot) O-
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#3 of 47 Posted 3/9/07 3:27 PM

From Sysop Marilyn L. Alm Posts 2248 Last Jun-25
To WizOp Adrienne C. [Msg # 106498.3 106498.1 ]

I access via Mozilla Firefox and my ISP. My ID here is a classic CompuServe ID. I still have my original Classic CompuServe ID which proved invaluable for email when phone line bandwidth was nonexistent after Hurricane Katrina.

-- Marilyn

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#4 of 47 Posted 3/9/07 3:46 PM

From WizOp Adrienne C. Posts 1461 Last Jul-5
To All [Msg # 106498.4 106498.1 ]

I access via Mozilla Firefox (currently 2.0.0.2) and my ISP. My ID here is a classic CompuServe ID.

Dri

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#5 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 3:13 PM

From Ted Hall Posts 105 Last 6:07 AM
To WizOp Adrienne C. [Msg # 106498.5 106498.1 ]

My classic account is still active... but I'm running out of excuses to keep paying the ten bucks a month...

I've been offered comped accounts ever since I became a SysOp... but always figured paying my own way made me a little more independent...

This account, btw, hasn't been updated to IMP access... do I get IMPinated for another incarnation???<G>

Once I get After Hours access on this one I'll be finished with the paid account... and moved over to this one completely...

Ted C Hall

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#6 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 4:53 PM

From Sysop Marilyn L. Alm Posts 2248 Last Jun-25
To Ted Hall [Msg # 106498.6 106498.5 ]

Ted,

I just imped you -- it's easiest to Imp you if we have a message posted from the account you will use. Which this is. Imping may take up to 20 minutes from the time of this post.

-- Marilyn

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#7 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 6:51 PM

From Ted Hall Posts 105 Last 6:07 AM
To Sysop Marilyn L. Alm [Msg # 106498.7 106498.6 ]

OK, thanks...

I'm faced now with the decision to dump my 1990 CIS account or not<g>

Ted C Hall

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#8 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 7:08 PM

From Sysop Marilyn L. Alm Posts 2248 Last Jun-25
To Ted Hall [Msg # 106498.8 106498.7 ]

Ted,

I can tell you only this: I use a CIS account for logging in here, but I still have my 1987 personal CIS account. Don't use it much as it's a spam magnet. But I was darned all glad to have it for the six weeks after we returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

DSL was down. (And I do think Bellsouth did a phenomenal job of having it back up within three months of the storm.)

Local CompuServe nodes were nonexistant.

My sponsored account was not permitted to log in via an 800 number.

But my old personal account could still use OzWin to at least grab email, so I wasn't completely bereft of connectivity. For that alone, it was worth what I've paid to keep it active.

But I do hope you won't be having a Hurricane Katrina where you are.

-- Marilyn

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#9 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 8:36 PM

From Ted Hall Posts 105 Last 6:07 AM
To Sysop Marilyn L. Alm [Msg # 106498.9 106498.8 ]

>>But I was darned all glad to have it for the six weeks<<

I think I've got 20 hours of dialup with that account... and I only changed it from unlimited about a year back...

Most of the hotels I've stayed in have had WiFi and I had my phone setup for 3G cellular data on the trip out here from NC...

My desktop was in the back seat, with a 17" LCD displaying Street Atlas USA and a GPS footprint of my current location and a wireless mouse and KB...

The cellphone was hanging from the passenger's visor hook and worked for about 2300 miles of the trip.

I lost data service coming down into the valley here... called Sprint and found out that they don't offer that here... after I had my computers and Palm all working wonderfully that way... we finally had to go DSL

Ted C Hall

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#10 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 8:39 PM

From Sysop Marilyn L. Alm Posts 2248 Last Jun-25
To Ted Hall [Msg # 106498.10 106498.9 ]

Ted,

We didn't have a wifi machine until last Monday. Or a cell phone until four weeks after Katrina.

I rather like my DSL.

-- Marilyn

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#11 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 10:08 PM

From WizOp Adrienne C. Posts 1461 Last Jul-5
To Sysop Marilyn L. Alm [Msg # 106498.11 106498.10 ]

I really like my DSL. I won't willingly go back to dialup unless I have no choice. <g>

Dri

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#12 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 10:11 PM

From WizOp Adrienne C. Posts 1461 Last Jul-5
To Ted Hall [Msg # 106498.12 106498.5 ]

The classic account is a good just-in-case backup. I dropped another dialup provider I had last year because I simply wasn't using it any more, and the emailbox was clogged with spam. Now I've got this account, and my DSL account.

Marilyn gave you the keys to the IMPcastle for your TC_Hall account. Whether the IMPs IMPnitiate you again remains to be seen. <G>

Dri

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#13 of 47 Posted 3/11/07 10:41 PM

From Sysop Marilyn L. Alm Posts 2248 Last Jun-25
To WizOp Adrienne C. [Msg # 106498.13 106498.11 ]