(Excerpts from a message dated 10-03-99, Bob Wright to Murray Lesser)

Hi Bob--

BW>Is it safe to ASSume that you are using the "old, original" SLIP-only
  >dialler?
  >  I tried to connect with the 1.69 version that I have and sometimes
  >still use and, while the connection was made, I couldn't access
  >"pop3.ca.us.ibm.net".  I immediately redialled with Injoy and was
  >able to sign on there...

BW>After I saw this message I tried the old one... and it 
  >updated my user object as well...

    I am using ver 1.67, the last of the "old" versions of DIALER.EXE.
My dialer (and phone.lst) is in MPTN\.  When I updated ver 1.67 to ver
1.69(?), it was dumped into tcpip\ :-(, leaving the old dialer in place
where it was :-).  (Neither MPTN nor tcpip are on the boot drive.) Since
I didn't know what effect the change in directories would have on MR2I
ICE, I left well enough alone and deleted the new version.  When I have
updated PHONE.LST, sometimes it gets put into MPTN\ and sometimes in
tfcpip\.  If in tcpip\, I copy it to MPTN\ and delete the other.

    According to Object Toolkit/2, the User ID object is in
tcpip\dll\adv.dll.  According to a "dir g:\tcpip\dll\adv.dll" this file
has not been updated since 3/17/97!  However, the User ID object was
updated to the new addresses the first time I signed on to AT&T Business
Net.  Go figure!  I updated the addresses in MR/2 ICE manually, even
though a test showed that it forwarded the old pop3 and smtp addresses
OK.  (One of the many things I know little about is communication
software, so I cannot comment further.)

BW>Now when I use ver 1.69, I get connection to mail and a proper check
  >for new version and phone list, etc...

BW>I guess newer isn't necessarily always better..

    That "guess" has long been known in professional computing circles.
The standard adage is "Don't be the first kid on the block with a new
system (or application program)."  I am running Warp 4, FP 5.  I have FP
10 on a CD and have been debating with myself whether or not to install
it.  FP 6 (the last one I tried) blew a couple of my often-used
programs, so I retreated!  AFAIK, there is nothing on FP 10 that I
really need, so I will probably not bother.

    The original Warp 4 bugs I noticed seem to have been taken care of
by FP 5.  (After Warp 3, FP 5, IBM issued a "manufacturing refresh" of
Warp 3 that included FP 5; many Warp 3 users have never applied a FixPak
to it!)  Later FixPaks are mostly to accommodate new hardware (which I
don't have), to correct bugs introduced in previous FixPaks, and to make
new bugs.  One has to evaluate carefully whether one wishes to be cursed
with the side effects of the few "new function" additions in FixPaks.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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