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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