[coryphaeus] Re: New way? No way, for me.

Let me explain something, for Dan and Tim B and anyone else who's puzzled
by TAPCIS's apparently aberrant behavioir.

TAPCIS, as you might guess from its name (it's an acronym for The Access
Program for the CompuServe Information Service), was designed--by an
outside party--strictly for CompuServe customers. That is also true of
OZWin, which came along a little later and works similarly. Both were
introduced pre-Web.

These OLRs were intended to handle all of the user's online activities,
which included e-mail, the then-huge array of CompuServe forums (there were
six or eight hundred, I think), and various other services offered by CIS.
The [R]eply function was meant to send and answer personal e-mail if that
was the item (you reply to the sender; who else?) or to post publicly in
the forums (that was the default; many forums also made provision,
optionally, for under-the-radar posts to individuals, and you did it by
marking a particular spot on the address "envelope" on your screen). If you
wanted to send a personal e-mail to someone who'd posted in a forum, you
did another notation on the envelope, switching your reply to e-mail.

Both TAPCIS and OZWin (perhaps other programs as well) work with the HMI
protocol, which CompuServe has dropped for forums but continues for e-mail.
So those who are customers of the service and have these programs continue
to use them, because they're wonderful.

--DS



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