HAM
The point that someone made, and that I was explaining is that TapCIS interacts
as a user rather rigidly with CompuSpend. The only way it could get along with
some other online service would be if that service had an identical look and
feel to CompuServe. He wasn't saying that CI$ would object to a TapCIS rip-off,
but that anything TapCIS could talk to comfortably probably looks too much like
CompuServe.
Ever since Lotus went back and bought the empty husk of the company they took
their "look and feel" from, everyone's been pushing "here's the standard, but
no-one's allowed to conform to it" idea.
../greg