internet access

[Ron Marriage]

If you were in a public library then you could just telnet
to a shell account, or access the web page with the browser
to get your mail.
You would not want to dial your local number as that would
be long distance.




On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Diana Dawne wrote:

> Would I then just call my own number?  if I did that could I access the
> web?  that was not my first question but I would guess that would be
> possible.
>
> love,
>
> Diana
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > at the risk of being helpful, Diana Dawne delivered up the following on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:51:58AM -0700,
> > > Hi everyone.  I have a question about internet access.
> > >
> > > I have dsl and I just love it.  However, if I am away from home and need
> > > to check my email what other access modes to the internet might be
> > > available.  Right now I have another dial up account so it wouldn't be a
> > > problem for me but if someone needs to access sometimes just for email, it
> > > seems silly to have to keep an isp if you might only use it a few times a
> > > year.  Has some company addressed that problem?
> > >
> >
> > I am probably going to get you into trouble for suggesting this but it's
> > a thought,
> > why not set up a dialin server for you on your linux box and have all
> > yer mail collected for you by said linux box
> > you could possibly access it with either pop3 or imap whichever you find
> > easiest to use.
> > it's just a thought,
> > hth
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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