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Judy,
Just as an aside, do you think there would be any interest in adding in a Virtual Access section to the Tapcis board? I ask because I always thought of it as part of the big 3: Tapcis, OzWin and VA. |
We'll be happy to consider it if the demand is there. But I understood VA was being supported by its own website, no?
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Virtual Access is now Open Source with a support board at Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-access/
There is also the Virtual Access Foundation site: http://www.virtual-access.org/ But not much seems to have happened in either place for quite a while. And there does not seem to be any sort of community forum, so maybe it would be nice to add a section here for VA users in hopes that their conversations would help spur further development. Anne |
My concern about having a section for VA users is that the only distinctions we have now are public vs. private and one section for Tapcis support and one section for OzWin support. I wouldn't want a VA support section without having someone from VA to answer any questions, and I wouldn't want a section other than a support section that suggests any division among forum members.
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It's a LONG time since I last accessed Tapcis and my PC is failing to make contact since a recent major disk crash. How do I go about unsubscribing from it.
bob(mc) - Septuagenarian |
Unsubscribing Tapcis
It's a LONG time since I last accessed Tapcis and my PC is failing to make contact since a recent major disk crash. How do I go about unsubscribing from it.
bob(mc) - Septuagenarian |
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Customer Service Freephone: 1-800-848-8990 Customer Service Direct: 1-614-457-8600 - Jeff |
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How do I set up Tapcis to access this forum?
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Many moons later. Entering my details into www.mail2web.com produces the error msg: Login Failure. Please check your email address and re-enter your password I have double-checked the details and tried them in upper and lower case. As you may remember, I'm THE computer idiot extraordinaire at times |
Oops! I used win98 SE before and now use XP Pro 2. I'm unsure about setting up a web address at any point.
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The e-mail address has to be your full address: myemailaddress@compuserve.com The password has to be the mail-only password that you set up for POP3 mail. This is not the same thing (or should not be the same thing) as your dial-up logon password. Do you know whether or not you ever set up a mail-only password? If not, do you have any CompuServe-supplied software (CS 3 or 4, for example)? Or do you have Virtual Key installed for your browser? --Lindsey |
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I can access Tapcis. It screams for about 28 secs (did this before and someone told me how to stop it) and I can get as far as 'scanning waiting messages'. Bottom line is: com1:115200 CPS total 300 say CPS current 400 say * DTR CD RTS CTS 0 It then gives a 'requesting topic change' (or words to that effect) and log off. This is via a 56K modem, albeit I use broadbad for everything else. Is that of any help? I 'think' it's CS3. Any way I can check? Don't know about Virtual Key. I jpoined Tapcis about 1988 and have long since forgotten how to drive it as I had it set up to do so automagically. Obviously the major disk crash and change to XP Pro SP2 finished me off. I can give you a list of the files I have if that' of any use. |
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I'm a little short of online time at the moment, but if you're willing to be patient, I could possibly help you with TAPCIS if you'd post exactly (that is, via copy and paste) what shows up in your ONLINE.LOG (or on your screen) when you try to collect your mail. I have never seen or heard of any message that said "Requesting topic change," so I think you must have misremembered what you saw. If you want help getting Mail2Web set up, post a message in the Classic CompuServe Support forum. That forum can also help you get CS3 (or, more likely, CS4) running on your PC. Windows XP requires a different version of the CompuServe software than Windows 9x; they can tell you in that forum where to go to download it. --Lindsey |
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> I'm a little short of online time at the moment And I'm off to Scotland until Nov.19th <g> I'll see if I can capture the screen. Do you want it posted here in due course if I can? I'll have a look at the the Classic CompuServe Support forum when I get a chance. Many thanks for your efforts. |
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Have a good trip to Scotland! I've been reading quite a lot about ancient Scotland, lately--a book tracing the "real history" of King Arthur, who, according to the author, was based largely in the area between the two Roman walls, with his primary seat at Carlisle. Lancelot, according to this book, was in reality a King Anguselus (whose name translated to Old French as L'Anselot) whose kingdom was in the vicinity of Edinburgh and Stirling. --Lindsey |
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Frankly, though, if you have another e-mail account you can use, I think you're much better off at this point using that rather than CompuServe. Without a good spam filtering system, CompuServe mail has become all but unusable. --Lindsey |
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If that is not the case then there might be few or no messages in your TAPCIS installation to scan for the names and email addresses of your correspondents to notify them of your new address, etc. Of course, if you actually have to re-install TAPCIS even to have any TAPCIS software to run on your computer, then the INBOX in TAPCIS would initially be EMPTY and the ONLY messages you might be able to access would be those still remaining to be downloaded from your Classic Compuserve account. However, if you DO have some TAPCIS message files stored on some disks (e.g. floppies, CD's, etc.) then it would be possible to read those message files on a different installation of TAPCIS from that installation on which the messages were originally received from Compuserve. If this is the situation that you are in, it is highly likely that Lindsey or somebody else in this forum would be able to help you further. I don't have TAPCIS installed on my computer any more. I don't subscribe to Compuserve any more. But I sure did like the TAPCIS program when I was a Compuserve Classic user. Hope that helps. David H. not a sysop ;) |
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What I did when I was ready to close my CServe account completely was open MAIL.MSG in Tapcis and then isolate the last 120 days worth of mail (use the View function to set the dates). Then I simply did a copy-and-paste of any relevant email addresses and sent a single email to everyone on that list advising them of the change of address.
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Old, old, real old, school here; still @compuserve.com
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Oh! Of course; I misunderstood his question. For some reason, I thought he was asking how to open the file.
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Once I developed my own website, there just wasn't any reason to keep the compuserve email address, Jeff, especially since all I ever got at that address was spam.
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hey, above brought up an interesting question: how many of us still use TAPCIS for mail actually? how many on a daily basis, how many mails/day, how many just occasionally?
wondering if this question will be read here, or if it should be moved to another section to get solid answers. are there any estimates, or educated guesses, how many people still use TAPCIS out there that might NOT be members here? greetings - heinz - |
We don't have any way of knowing, Heinz. We certainly tried to reach everyone we knew of who had any connection with Tapcis in the weeks before this forum opened, to replace the one CServe closed. But since there are no cookies left and no continuing registration fees, it's anybody's guess.
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well, any chance of finding out by putting this question up front where everybody would read it? your move.
or ''any educated guesses''? from you, lindsey, jeff , and the many others in the know? is there any listing or voting feature on the forum for things like this? in find it intriguing ... and most interesting. you dont? greetings - heinz - |
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If you still have an account, you might post such a question in a forum such as the adult intimate chat forum (maybe that was not the actual name). Perhaps someone in the Classic support forum or perhaps Matt (sysop in practice forum) would know answer to such questions? (web view forums) David H. |
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