(Excerpts from a message dated 09-29-99, Gord Hannah to Murray Lesser)

Hi Gord--

 ML>      The AT&T WorldNet(r) Service does not offer an OS/2
 ML> dialer. 

JS> Neither does anyone else on earth, far as I know, so what?

GH>I agree with Jack on this call, my ISP does not support OS/2 either
  >so here is what you need to do, if using DOIP or Injoy find out the
  >IP address, Gateway, domain name smtp stuff, and change your phone
  >number that you need to access the service, voila you are up and
  >running, it is that simple at least it was for me on my end.

    I don't "agree with Jack on this call" and have told him so.  The
first version of the "native OS/2" dialer DIALER.EXE came with Warp 3.
It used to connect directly to ibm.net, and all I had to furnish was the
telephone number that I wished to use for access (available from
PHONE.LST).  I survived the switch to AT&T by notifying ibm.net (done on
28 September) that I didn't want to be switched to WorldNet, but wished
to be switched to AT&T Business Internet Service.

    Here it is on the morning of October 1, and my same IBM-furnished
"native OS/2" DIALER.EXE pointing at my old local ibm.net phone number
connected me to AT&T Business Net with no difficulty.  It even updated
my "USER ID" object.  I had enabled DIALTEXT.LOG for this call, which
recorded the entire dialing sequence, just in case the USER ID object
(actually part of a DLL) wasn't updated.  Since you have never used
DIALER.TXT, you don't know that the User ID object gives my internet
address and the server addresses (pop3 and smtp) being used.  I used my
MR/2 ICE off-line reader/writer to send a message to my "alias" e-mail
address, which returned it to my ibm.net address and was returned
(forwarded to me at attglobal.net) as part of the same call.  MR/2 ICE
was not updated to the new addresses, so was working with the automatic
forwarding from ibm.net.  VMODEM connected me to Pete Norloff's OS/2
Shareware BBS from which I downloaded my Fido conferences.

    So I guess I am in business with AT&T Business Network with my
(nonexistent!) OS/2 dialer, just as advertised :-).  I gather that I
have a year to update my reader/writer.  Now, I will have to download
the new "terms and conditions" text to see how much this is going to
cost me.

GH>Hope this helps.  Keep us posted.

    It didn't, but thanks anyway.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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