OLR folks knocked on CIS

[Peter Creasey]

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[Judy G. Russell]

Ignore it and let it go. For some reason, some people, usually newbies to the online world and totally without a sense of the history of the online community (and this poster is one of them), have been uniformly negative towards OLR users and their contributions towards Compuserve. You're not going to change their mind, and there's no benefit in fighting that battle any more. It's not as if anyone is using OLRs there any more (except in closed and adult forums).

[Peter Creasey]

>> Ignore it and let it go. <<

Judy, I went on and deleted the text of my message here. I couldn't figure out how to delete the whole message...perhaps you will do it.

[Judy G. Russell]

No need... the point that we all need to let is go and move on is still a good one. We have a new home here. That's the key.

[davidh]

The positive angle to me is that Mozilla.org now has
cross platform open source Mozilla and Thunderbird email
programs which are quite powerful OLR's even if one ignores
the fact that they support NNTP and RSS protocols.
David H.

[Judy G. Russell]

I'm very encouraged by the number of truly first class cross platform open source efforts going on.

[Peter Creasey]

>> Mozilla.org now has cross platform open source Mozilla and Thunderbird email
programs which are quite powerful OLR's <<

David, Certainly true as many of us have appreciated with our usage of Mozilla Suite, etc. for email processing. I was pretty much forced away from using OzWin for email as something (probably ZoneAlarm) ruined my OzWin access on one of my primary PCs.

[MollyM/CA]

On the other hand, if you are online most the time anyway, the "live" forums are a lot of fun if running on decent software --lots of opportunities for expression :D

or custom, if you can figure out how "insert image" works...

and variety

links Feghoots (http://www.awpi.com/Combs/Shaggy/index.html)

and if you eschew all that stuff you have a nice big window to type your text into.

I do miss not being able to leave and sit on unsent messages until they're ready to hatch, though.

[Judy G. Russell]

I do miss not being able to leave and sit on unsent messages until they're ready to hatch, though.
That would be nice, wouldn't it?

[Lindsey]

I do miss not being able to leave and sit on unsent messages until they're ready to hatch, though.
And not being able to pull down a whole bunch of messages and then read and reply to them while you're sitting in an airport terminal, or riding on a train, when you're not online.

I had forgotten you were in California; where in California? (You can reply by private message if you want.) I'll be attending an annual conference in Westlake Village for the next few years, probably. I don't suppose you'd be anywhere in the general vicinity of Ventura County?

--Lindsey

[MarteB]

I don't suppose you'd be anywhere in the general vicinity of Ventura County?
If Molly isn't, I am. :)

[Lindsey]

If Molly isn't, I am. :)
Oh, I will remember that the next time I am out there!!

--Lindsey

[BrucePatterson]

Can I access this forum with NNTP? I'm using Outlook Express as my OLR on my new forum at Republicanforum.com (http://www.Republicanforum.com).

[davidh]

Can I access this forum with NNTP? I'm using Outlook Express as my OLR on my new forum at Republicanforum.com (http://www.Republicanforum.com). Some bulletin board server side softwares may or may not have the ability to add-on RSS feed publishing. But I doubt there is significant desire on the part of members of this forum to justify the effort that would be required by our glorious leader(s) to peform this feat.

FWIW, some RSS feed readers do have OLR capabilities, but I forget which ones do so.

FWIW, I believe the nomisoft [sp?] and simpilot CIS forums moved off CIS and onto their own web site and may have NNTP support, but I doubt the traffic there is heavy.

DH

[BrucePatterson]

FWIW, I believe the nomisoft [sp?] and simpilot CIS forums moved off CIS and onto their own web site and may have NNTP support, but I doubt the traffic there is heavy.

DH

David,

My two forums are on the Nommisoft server and working great! Simon is the programmer and he's getting traffic on his forums. They support Virtual Access and any newsreader. I'm using Outlook Express with some success.

Bruce

[Judy G. Russell]

No call for it at the moment, Bruce.

[BrucePatterson]

I gotta tell you, this is really slick. It's just like the old Tapcis days. A few missing features, but a few new ones. No sysop tools, but At least I can read and reply to messages at 30,000 feet again!

Bruce

[Judy G. Russell]

We're doing fine here at the moment, thanks.

[MollyM/CA]

San Joaquin County just north of the Stanislaus County line, but Ventura County's not all that much of a drive in my new 4Runner, and has lots to explore. Give me a heads-up --maybe we can have a TapFest.

[BrucePatterson]

Yeah, OLRs! I just got mine back! Well, ok it's not Tapcis, but it works pretty well. I download messages read and reply on the plane and then upload them later, pretty slick!

It's called outlook express and it works with my new forum at republicanforum.com which is on the simpilot network server.

Bruce