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Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:16:29 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: local DSL on the move

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Tony wrote:

> I 'upgraded' on a Win2K partition the other day. Sure, there are gotcha's. Basically after doing the install, which requires Internet Explorer, you wind up with a
> heavily modified SBC/Yahoo browser that is a lot like the AOL portal design. Slow, cumbersome, & tracks your every move to sell the information to all that will
> buy it.

Hi Tony,

In that case, I definitely would not want it, probably on either side. But -- if you take SBC at their word -- why do you need I.E., why would you need to install
anything ? Can't you just pocket the extra storage space they're offering for your account, change the mail servers your *existing* browser & mail s/w points at, and
continue on as before ? I think I could easily forego all the other "added value" in their new package; the extra online storage is just about the only enticement,
so far as I'm concerned.

> On the mail side, you get moved from pacbell.net serviers to yahoo servers. I don't think there is any going back, since tech support has not gotten back to me
> since I e-mailed them a snotty note. They do, however, send you an e-mail to let you know that your mail has been moved -- same user id, but physically moved.

Something else I don't want to change blithely. This may be harmless, or maybe not.

> On the OS/2 side, I had to make some changes to PMMail, but can receive and send mail.

I'm assuming you did _not_ need I.E. to make the change there . . . ? Any other concessions ? (Obviously, they're not going to give you an OS/2 version of this
spyware . . . er, uh, new browser.) Can you make use of the extra storage space from OS/2 ?

The things I'd *really* like to do with the extra space probably aren't feasible or allowed anyway: set up a remotely managed ftp site, maybe even my own mail server,
a la Peter. Even if they didn't prohibit this, what s/w could be used to accomplish it would surely be an issue.

Jordan

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