Curm,

That means that they are probably not running a POP3 server, but some AOL
propietary or other product (and protocol) instead.  They may have another
suite of computers set up as a POP3 server, you really should ask them.
AOL does support SMTP, that's how you're able to send mail out.  Don't tell
anyone, "it'll be a secret between us", but you can sometimes send outgoing
email through most Unix computers that you can see on the net.  With SMTP
and Unix you don't really log in, you just connect to the sendmail program
running on the computer using a "well known" port number.

The fact you can run Netscape 3.x and 4.x and aren't forced to use their
stripped down and outdated version of M$ Internet Explorer (IE) surprises
me.  This fact indicates that at least your connection to AOL is sort of
standard, either SLIP or PPP.

The only thing I never liked about IE in general was how they store
favorites as individual files each one eating up a disk cluster (usually
16,384 Bytes or 32,768 Bytes) to store something that is much less than 200
Bytes!  Most web developers have to keep both Navigator and IE on their
system to test compatibility, but the only favorite they use is a link to
their Navigator bookmarks.htm file.  Some like the IE interface more than
Navigators.

I was a Beta Tester on the original AOL back in 1989.  Compared to either
CompuServe or Prodigy I really liked it as a content provider.  I must
have, I just cancelled my membership last month.   With internet
connectivity through work, and an alternative ISP that hosted my web site,
the only thing it was used for was getting game hints by the kids every
couple of months.  They had started going to the web for that, so we were
going months and months without using it.

-joe-

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