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Cracking up.. replying to my own replies to my own messages.. Upgraded VPC to 3.0, which under VPN no longer uses the W95's manually set IP address, so there's no routing issue... worse, my router registers absolutely NO packets returning from the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Cracking up.. replying to my own messages.. VPN is installed, but there are several routing issues where it doesn't get past my personal firewall, or they do but reply packets can't be routed back at W95. Ugh. (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ack, you got me started again... CURSE MICROSOFT! So, today I get approval for the VPN at work. The software says it only works with W98. I at least have W95 and they reassure me I'm ok. Well... I get the VPN installer. It tells me I need (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) At least here with AT&T cable you're not allowed to. They supposedly portscan your systems to make sure. I know many people who have a tunnel/VPN set up to and from work to get around this, though... Chris (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [snip] (...) And what if I just want to be able to access my home machine remotely? To do some direct file transfer, or whatever. Steve (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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off-topic.geek replying to my own message... Uh. There was a little "Help" link on the www.rr.com page. That helped. Got the darn smtp address. Now I can finally mail my "Auczilla" bids, the true purpose of having a cable modem. (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah. The scuttlebutt is that they (RoadRunner) consider a personal firewall to be a violation of their Terms Of Use--if "they" understand the issue beyond being scared of it. LinkSys personal routers are *right out*. This is all rumor, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) We've had the same problems here in Champaign-Urbana (Illinois) with DSL delivery. McLeod put in two fiber rings around the twin cities over a year ago, but still haven't made *DSL available to the public despite promises to have it ready by (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Wow. After 6 months of DSL he** (Covad/Bell Atlantic) that failed to deliver even a copper wire, I got a sales call from Road Runner, and was up and running (ha ha) on a cable modem within 3 business days. AMAZINGLY, Covad's stock crashed by 55% (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I wasn't getting excited about it. I was bemoaning the fact that Netscape doesn't give you the choice as to whether to use strict or relaxed threads. It certainly can be more pleasant reading a thread which is broken by a broken newsreader (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:39EAF46F.3B54@m...ing.com... (...) Shouldn't really make a difference. I have a user here with both OE and Outlook 98 and they both stay out of each other's way. If you are talking about (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't get too excited about this. Forte (Free) Agent does the same thing. I suspect it's a common custom on newsreaders. I think the longest-running thread on LUGNET has the subject "test". On lugnet.off-topic.test, of course. Steve (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hmmm, I was able to log in but I havn't gotten any new mail since friday, which is highly unlikely. I just sent my self 2 test messages, an out going, and an incoming, to see if it is working.... I already got the one I sent to my yahoo account. But (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The problem is that Outlook 98 and Outlook Express seem to use some joint configuration wrto e-mail. The result is that I have been unable to configure OE to send the e-mail itself. I think the problem may be that both applications are MAPI. (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:39EA3952.70C134...ing.com... (...) Outlook Express forces you to use Outlook 98 for sending email? Something weird in your config then, as OE is a full email and newsreader program and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just noticed a way in which Netscape Communicator 4.75 is screwed up. It determines threads solely by subject (unless I'm missing a configuration option, I remember WinVN had several options for how to handle threading which gave you a choice as to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've done that, too, except I just used the 1x1 cylinder. Alan (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Noncompliant software (was: Re: Incorrect group posting)
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(...) Firewalled, I think...And when I tried using Netscape to use this SMTP server, I couldn't eeven sendd out... (...) Yeep, but not outside our collection of servers for telnet, other than that, I don't think so. (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The keyboard of my laptop computer just begged to be "Legofied" See the end result at (URL) the full progression at (URL) well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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(...) Are you able to change your SMTP server, or are you forced by a firewall to use that one? Also, are you able to use telnet or ssh? (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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