Message-Id: <199908160326.XAA16896@christopher.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: jls11 AT po DOT cwru DOT edu (John L. Spetz)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Compiling opendos...easier now?
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Reply to message from ya830 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca of Fri, 13 Aug
>
>On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
>
>|>Also, the venerable Cleveland Freenet, first of its kind in the nation,
>|>is calling it quits after 13 years at the end of September.  Yet another
>|>text-mode system fades into memory.  Any pointers on changing e-mail
>|>addresses for subscriptions to this list?
>
>|Aww that's too bad! Sad to hear that.
>
>   It is.  Why aren't they choosing to progress and grow into something a
>little more modern?  Victoria Telecommunity Network, the first of its kind
>in Canada, is about to roll out PPP graphical access as part of its
>service.  The old text-only dial-up will be maintained in perpetuity,
>however, and this is just a way of expanding what the system is capable of
>and keeping it relevant to those who want graphical access.

I asked about that and was told that there was talk of providing a graphical
system with web access but nothing came of it.  They say they would keep the
existing text based system going but it isn't Y2K compliant.