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IO.com To Disappear, Piece of Internet History Lost

Since I am relatively young (I'm from December 1984), I never experienced the pre-web networking days of the BBS - I first went online at a friend's house somewhere in 1994 or 1995, at which point the internet already started looking like the internet we know today. We got internet access at home somewhere in the summer of 1998 (with a blazing fast 33k6 modem and epic, unforgettable sound that I still miss to this day). I was 13, and flirting with some girl (at least, I hope so) in Switzerland using a computer. It was awesome.

Not too long after, about a year or so, we were one of the first in my tiny town to get cable internet. We were promised superfast internet, but since the technology was new, the speeds weren't always reliable - nor was the connection. This is why I adopted the online handle 'slakje' ('little snail'), which, up until very recently, was my preferred email handle (slakje@osnews.com still works, even though thomholwerda@osnews.com is the primary address now).

Sorry for the personal anecdotes, but this story has me all nostalgic, and I'm hoping the comments will fill up with some of your personal early online anecdotes.

Anywho, let's get on with it. Steve Jackson Games is a company that develops tabletop games (not computer games). For their customer support, they set up a BBS called the Illuminati BBS in April 1986, which ran on an Apple ][+ using T-Net software written in BASIC, and a 300 baud modem to talk to the outside world. They later switched to Joe-Net running on MS-DOS - "Best software we ever had", according to Steve Jackson. The Illuminati BBS started out as a customer service portal, but soon filled up with loads of random chatter on whatever matter people found interesting.

Right around the time they were switching the Illuminati BBS over to WWIV , the offices of Steve Jackson Games were raided by the US Secret Service.

Windows Live Mail Desktop cant send emails SMTP, BellSouth, and ...

I have tried everything you guys have suggested in the other posts, including uninstalling and reinstalling the mail software. I have two email accounts & neither will send. It had been working since Nov 09 and just suddenly stopped. I have windows 7 & windows live mail. Here is the error I keep getting: Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. This is the local server I use. Subject 'Fw: Fwd: xoxo' Server: 'smtp.acsalaska.net' Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0F Protocol: SMTP Port: 25 Secure(SSL): No The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Fw: Fwd: Now, this is a DOG!' Server: 'smtp.comcast.net' Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC0E Protocol: SMTP Port: 587 Secure(SSL): No Socket Error: 10060 Gary VanderMolen [MVP] mentioned the error "unexpectedly terminated" is usually caused by interference from an antivirus program. Which antivirus are you running? As a minimum, email scanning in the antivirus should be turned off, see http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm --=20 Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) Microsoft MVP Program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com including=20 accounts &=20 keep=20 causes for=20 Barbara said i find the message in a post I made 2/23/10 very similar to Sue's made in this thread. I have had this message ever since installing a new computer using BellSouth and WLM. I???m still getting it and had finally given up thinking it must be a BellSouth problem because of all the bad things I am finding in threads about B. S. though I never actually found **this** message as a problem with BellSouth users. I have totally quit using my Anti-Virus to scan mail by uninstalling Avast Anti-Virus and reinstalling leaving outgoing and incoming mail scan unchecked as advised in my thread 2/23/10. I have copied and pasted my message to compare with Sue's and set off the similar part with asterisks so it can be compared easily.. Mine at one time said OE on the end and changed to OF. The reason I am posting this is to see if Sue has found a solution to this problem so that I might find the solution I have been hunting for almost 2 months. Bell South offered no solution. Or is this in fact a Windows Live Mail Error which that line names it? Would appreciate any suggestion someone may have.

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