Have a happy and safe Labor Day!

In 2002 when City Cable announced that it was considering doing Internet service, our company had thousands of dialup customers in the Poplar Bluff area. MyCityCable had 0 customers at that time. The City Council voted to open their Cable Internet service up to all ISPs and encourage companies like semo.net to bring their dialup customers onto the network.
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Of course this move by the city is disappointing. And in this economy, it would not be fair to say this isn’t going to be detrimental to our current business model. But remember that the same ingenuity that created & sustained semo.net is still at work within our staff.
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For the next 3 months, ISPs will pay the current rates (which were raised by City Council in January 2010)
For the following 12 months, ISPs rates will increase by 43% (semo.net’s rates were estimated to increase by over $8,500/month)
After 15 months, MyCityCable will be the only ISP on the Cable Network

Here are the financial numbers provided by Mr. Bach to the City Council and the Municipal Utilities Advisory Board showing how Mr. Bach calculated the new rates to be charged to the Open Access ISPs.

Have a happy and safe holiday!

Turn you hump day into a fiesta!!!!

Tio’s is located on Three Rivers Blvd just off of Kanell Blvd (PP Hwy) in Poplar Bluff.

Party starts when you walk in!

* state-of-the-art webmail
* free spam/virus filtering for all mailboxes
* filtered spam will be held in a “Spam” folder in your webmail
* optional SSL encryption
* optional IMAP access
* 2 gigabyte individual mailbox storage
* 25 megabyte maximum email size

All this is being added at no additional cost to you. If you have been
a user of our Postini spam filtering service, you will not be billed
again for the filtering, and your spam will be quarantined in the
semo.net webmail rather than the old Postini portal.

Due to the process of moving the email and migrating existing mailboxes
to the new service, you may experience a short delay in the delivery of
some messages, but no mail should be lost.

Some users may need to update their mail settings to log in to the new
mail. The new system requires that you log in using your entire email
address (for example, “gijoe@semo.net”) rather than just the first part
of the email address like our current service allows (i.e., “gijoe”). If
you need to update your settings, you can find instructions at:

http://blog.semo.net/2010/03/31/please-double-check-your-email-settings/

We are excited to offer this new service to you as we continue our
commitment to provide the best service, support and repair in Southeast
Missouri.

The new system requires that you log in using your entire email address (for example, “gijoe@semo.net”) rather than just the first part of the email address like our current service allows (i.e., “gijoe”).

To ensure that you don’t have any problems logging in, you may need to update your mail settings using the instructions below. If you have any questions about this change, feel free to contact us.

Note: if your email address is @sheltonbbs.com or @imsinternet.net, please adjust the instructions below accordingly.

The Webmail on the semo.net homepage is not affected; you do not need to change any settings there.

In Outlook Express or Windows Mail:

1) Open Outlook Express (or Windows Mail).
2) Click Tools then Accounts.
3) Click the Mail tab.
4) Highlight your email account and click the Properties button.
5) Click the Servers tab.
6) In the Account Name field, add @semo.net to the end of your username.
7) Click OK.
8) Click Close

In Mozilla Thunderbird:

1) Open Thunderbird.
2) Click Tools then Account Settings.
3) Click Server Settings in the left-hand menu.
4) In the User Name field, add @semo.net to the end of your username.
5) Click OK

In Windows Live Mail:

1) Open Windows Live Mail.
2) Right-click pop.semo.net and left-click Properties.
3) Click the Servers tab.
4) In E-mail username field, add @semo.net to the end of your username.
5) Click OK.

In Mac Mail:

1) Open Mac Mail.
2) Click on “Mail” at the top, then “Preferences”
3) Click on Accounts at the top.
4) Highlight the email account on the left.
5) Enter your full @semo.net address in the “username” field if it isn’t already there.
6) Restart the mail client
7) You’re done!

In Outlook 2003:

1) Open Outlook 2003
2) Click on “Tools”, then “Email Accounts”.
3) Place a dot in “View or Change Existing Email Accounts”, then click “Next”.
4) Highlight your email account and click “Change”.
5) In the “User Name” field, make sure your entire email address is typed in.
6) Click “Next”
7) Click “Finish”

In Outlook 2007:

1) Open Outlook 2007
2) Click “Tools” then “Account Settings”.
3) Click on your email account.
4) In the “User Name” field, make sure your entire email address is typed in.
5) Click “Next”.
6) Click “Finish”.