On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:51:43AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > It is easy for you to say. I live in a rural area > where we are lucky to have one ISP.
You can get email service from a different company than the one that provides you with dial-up service. This may cost a few dollars a month but is well worth it. For example I get webhosting + shell account on a computer running Linux with a about 150 megs of room for $10 a month. I am lucky enough to have a Cable modem now so I no longer have it handle all my mail, but before that I would have it fetch all my mail and filter it, etc. There are also services that will do all the filtering for you and present you with a nice webmail/imap/pop interface to your mail. I believe yahoo mail and hotmail both provide pay accounts. I'm sure there are less evil companies that provide the same type of service :) So to recap, you can: 1) Get webhosting + shell account from a company like: http://www.phpwebhosting.com http://www.eskimo.com and so on. or 2) Get decent mail service from a company that provides only email service. I don't really know them. Something like hotmail or yahoo mail but better. or even 3) You can find a friend with a nice cable modem or DSL connection and have him periodically download your mail (say every hour) from your ISP and then have him run a pop/imap/webmail server and you can connect to that whenever you want. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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