Thanks Mark

 ml> while not really on topic for the OS2PROG echo, i wish i could help...

Actually is on topic because I very seldom need to but do post in the OS/2
Program environment.  I actually have been an external person on the IBM
Development Team back in the late 1970's where I was cooperating to help
them find out machine language and assembly language issues for lockups in
the system that they could not figure out due to my original help in
creating FidoNet.  Where I was creating the first digital interface for EOC
centers and Ham Radio sites via both telephone interface to Fido as well as
HF/VHF so that in the event of really bad problems that thankfully never
happend for the world in the 'Cold War', we could even interface anywhere
in the world by short wave ham radio in the old MARS operations if no other
way even remained to do that.  That was even extended into the ARRL Field
Day contest for proof it would work one year.  It did!  I have the original
'thank you' letter from the ARRL for the work at my still operative site. 
Which is actually how I started tracking even what is now GPS locations,
complete system hardware interface control, total real-time logging and
second by second contest station control including even total system
complete custom database operations for the entire site.  As well as even
complete total contest participant inter-relationship operations based on
the defined 'country' or 'state' defined standards for a contest even as a
whole!  All in total real-time global variable operations that even then
went down into even ring level and 'interrupt' interfacing for multiple CPU
system use of even Intel and AMD intergated systems and even real-time
proof of no man-in-the-middle keystroke, video or that level stuff every
time you operated in the complete environment.

Which I assure you there sure wasn't enough and cheap enough computer
hardware even back then to do.  And even when I was originally third party
doing proof work for the original VMware in OS/2 later on after the first
hacking took place.  However, times are changing, aren't they?

Which, although I didn't write the code, is exactly what led to the first
virus ever to show up in the world on FidoNet even before the Internet!
From my best friend, now deceased, Paul Sittler here at Texas A&M
College,when he created the code to automate the original 'private'
NodeList address creation!  So we could create duplicate messages for the
EOC centers or remote ham radio sites for all this.  When this was first
tested on Fido, he had written the code so that he actually created a
separate complete message on each needed Fido server for each site.  But
then he accidently forgot to erase the message off the server after it had
been sent!  Blam!  In less than a week, every server in the whole Fido
operation ran out of disk space!  Which then 'attracted' attention from all
the Fido Texas Aggie students on Net 117 that was WAY bigger back then than
even Houston.  As we all know, Fido guys were very, very competitive and
even 'horsey porsey' back then.  One of the Aggie students wrote code that
he used to take down the entire Texas A&M computer system local campus
operations!  Man-in-the-middle gone wild!  We won't go into the details,
obviously later in years than the original 'original' virus deal.  From
which even later this Texas Aggie student turned out to be one of the
finest and most honorable people in the US military crew as he emotionally
grew up, carrying the whole communications world an humanity upward.  And
not to lie, cheat and steal from whomever.

Few Fido folks today, even world-wide, have any idea on how important the
OS2PROG echo could be to the survival of the human tribe.  From, for
example, a huge man-in-the-middle fury that might even erupt over the
horrible results from even a massive Solar Flare and cultural fury between
us humans - or even ET issues!  Even of focus to real-time total system
voice operations, or even telepathic mind control of what may have shrunk
down from UFO control to cars and trucks now!  Or even railroad engineers
even when the guy (or gal) in the overalls doesn't even know that
bit-chip,or, say, bit-coin, is even in the middle of the whole operation
that is going on even in not only railroad operations, but, horribly,
aircraft today?  And the Engineer or Pilot doesn't even know it's even
tracking every twist of their head and what is even being read off the
instrument panel in real time?  Telecommunications technology is growing up
much more rapidly that I assure you the majority of users never even know
exists today!  50,000 new API deals a month by when?  Hmmmmmm.

Who knows?  I don't.  But yes I do individually want to be able to post to
the OS2Prog echo even because it might even be the only secure way to help
us all in ways we can't go forward with in 'normal' use.  My job is to
still carry all us humans up so that they can have the most free and
honestly profitable choices in life.  And yes, even what is OS/2 and how it
still is one of the most secure and beautiful environments for
telecommunication operations that could be really still a wonder for all of
us here on Earth.  To save us.

So, how do I use 'free' access to all of this through my 'normal' SMPT IP
provider that can do this still.  For just my own use if I think it
important?  My IP provider still has normal SMPT newsgroup operations. It
is just that the IP provider that they were using to do this service
suddenly stopped providing it.  Due to the growing very limited use of the
interface.  It's not my IP provider that is the issue.  They are a VERY
good operation.  I ust want to use a single OS/2 browser to connect to
multiple newsgroups for single personal outbound postngs as well.


Thanks!

Mike Luther N117C at 1:117/100


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