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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Networks alternative to Internet Post 302402876 by Corona688 on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 10:38:36 PM
Old 03-10-2010
I used compuserve back in the day. It was a network of sorts, at least among its service half. Ordinary people dialed in. I was quite young at the time but I remember it mostly as a ball of services. My father used it instead of DATAPAC to access medical research, it meant that instead of having to sign up for access to one silly remote mainframe at exorbatant prices then fight for dial-in time, you could sign up for compuserve and access it more cheaply and conveniently -- if that system was offered on compuserve. They also had something like email, file repositories, and forums, and a search that could (slowly) trawl through them all.

It's all gone now as far as I can tell. Compuserve bit by bit became an internet provider instead of a compuserve provider, compuserve messaging dumped for more globally-useful email, compuserve search dumped for, in those days, the woefully more primitive web spiders... It's only now that Google's parcelled up its internet search that it's anything like it was. Forums and repositories either dumped outright or converted to web, prices going up as their lucrative big services dumped them to make web interfaces(so they could charge ordinary people ridiculous prices again, bleh!).

If there's not decent internet access where you are, the data lines just may not be there. Compuserve was built out of data lines too.
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smpppd.conf

SMPPPD.CONF(5)							      SMPPPD							    SMPPPD.CONF(5)

NAME

       smpppd.conf - global smpppd configuration file

DESCRIPTION

       When  smpppd  and smpppd-ifcfg start they first load their configuration from /etc/smpppd.conf, which contains basic information concerning
       their behavior.

       The configuration file /etc/smpppd.conf has a simple file format with a key = value pair in each line.

OPTIONS

       stop-on-disconnect = always, notdemand or never
	      Shall the dialup connection be shutdown when the last frontend disconnects?  Default value is always.

       reload-selects-default-provider = yes or no
	      Shall a reload (SIGHUP) select the default provider for all interfaces or keep the current one?  Default value is yes.

       open-inet-socket = yes or no
	      Shall the smpppd open a internet connection, so that remote frontends can control the dialup connection?	Default value is no.

       slp-register = yes or no
	      Try to register at the slp daemon (service location protocol) if set to yes and an internet connection is opened.

       bind-address = <ip-address>
	      Specify the ip address on which to listen for connections from remote frontends.	The default is to listen on all addresses.

       host-range = <min ip-address> <max ip-address>
	      Specify a host range from which remote frontends are allowed to connect to the smpppd.

       password = <password>
	      The password used to authenticate remote frontends, UTF-8 encoded for those who really care.  If the password is empty, no authenti-
	      cation is done.

       number-of-loglines = <lines>
	      The number of lines to keep in the log.  Default is 250.

       accounting = yes or no
	      Enable or disable accounting.  Default is yes.

       alive-interval = <seconds>
	      Interval for alive lines in the accounting log.  A value of 0 disables alive lines.  Default value is 900.

       debug = yes or no
	      Turn debugging on or off.  Default is off.  This can also be controlled at runtime with cinternet.

SEE ALSO

       smpppd(8).

AUTHOR

       Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>

SuSE								  September 2003						    SMPPPD.CONF(5)
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