Re: "surprise2"
THOUSAND thanks Ross, I've been feeling like the idiot child at the
seminar. But my ISP only provides me with Unix shell, and the web et al
is courtesy of my daughter's DSL line (she's got router 2 stories over my
head which sends waves through the intervening space & probably through
our brains as well -- but so do everyone else's. One of the available
stations for instance being "Three Big Fags," another is "Apartment 15,"
wherever that is. These folks are apparently happy to share -- they are
not password protected, tho hers is... But an e-mail program is something
else it seems, more complicated than just hitch hiking on an open wire.
Unfortunately daughter can't advise re the connection -- she got tech
support from Verizon & a couple of private parties, besides being on a pc.
I suppose I'm about to learn more than I bargained for -- and STILL
possibly not enough -- like life, obviously.
J.
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ross Chambers wrote:
Dear Judy,
You've probably found out how to do it by now, but just in case (and I've
just been tuning up a brand new Mac -- the old one was throwing a real spark
every time I tried to start it, which made a change from the less tangible
tangles to be expected from these spawn of the devil!
Anyway -- I needed to call my ISP help folk, who led me through step by step
entering the correct letters and figures into the correct boxes.
You may well find that they are the only keepers of these arcane formulae, as
far as my ISP goes, the client can't just guess.
Then type VERY carefully: I typed a colon instead of a point and it took a
day to spot it.
Good Luck! - Ross
On 08/11/2007, at 4:42 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:
But next is a page of gibberish that stops me in my tracks, and who knows
what lies beyond -- it won't let me go there until I've finished my
homework here:
Quote: "Enter the name of your incoming server, eg, 'mail.example.net.'"
Hunh?
And, as if that weren't enough, after that it says:
"Enter the name of your outgoing server, for example 'smtp.example.net.'"
Judy
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