Re: Using AOL at 9600 baud

chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)

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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
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Subject: Re: Using AOL at 9600 baud
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     My experiences using AOL at 9600 at the same as Ken Wallich: connect
at 9600, only to be explicitly rejected by the Zoomer AOL software.

> The more I use the email setup with AOL, which is why I bought the
> Zoomer in the first place, the more I wish I had NewtonMail.  Then I
> could browse my mail offline (I can do this with AOL with my Mac, I
> can even have it pop on, download the mail, and pop off), store more
> than 8k worth of stuff (which is what AOL's log file maxes out to.
> Silently, if you're trying to save one large message).

     I agree.  I wanted email and news services.  While email works (although
I really want to download mail and read it offline), the news features are
mostly broken.  Perhaps Casio should actually send a ZOomer over to AOL and
let them try some of this stuff.  They clearly *never* tested most of the
software.

Chuck Musciano