Re: Spam

From	Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups	chi.internet
Subject	Re: Spam
Date	2016-02-17 18:15 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm having flashbacks to helping customers get Miva Merchant working on 
>> their shitty websites back then. What a cluster fuck that software was.
> 
> If you ask me, it's just starting to be "ok".
> 
> We had that one merchant processor (Retreiver, I think) where even in 2010
> they were still using this archaic "solution" for small businesses. This
> required an XP box running their software, a "compatable" modem similar to
> the one CL was using.
> 
> This was they type where after each entry required it to "phone home", even
> if it was 10 cards you were running, each one required a call out instead of
> running it in a batch.
> 
> I think the reason for the goofy "compatable" modem was because it called
> into some archaic main frame, one time while trying to figure out why it
> dropping the calls on the connect I spotted one of those AT commands and
> after a bit of checking, it was trying to put the modem in some 7E2 mode, 7
> bits, even parity with 2 stop bits.

You have to be right on the remote mainframe stuff, and stupid settings. 
2400 baud modems were laughable junk even around that time, and it was 
quite the production to get one that worked. I still have that fucker 
somewere too. The other gems were the Intel satisFAXion modems for, well 
faxing stuff.

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