Hi Sam, Not that I am selling any alternatives to you or others but your mail about Access-4-Free.com prompted these reflections:
A while ago I went looking for another ISP when my giant corporate Verio, that had bought out what I originally subscribed to attempted to dumb all its dial-up customers to Earthlink. I found California.com which is a subsidiary of econetwork.net, a national outfit. Originally, I liked them because they (at least claimed) to send 10% of their profits to worthy causes of one's choice, and offer free ISP service to non-profits. Alas I got in just as they were removing they free shell account, because of abuse by spammers and such. I discovered (similar to Earthlink) that they have a nice Web server put out by Stalker, called Communigate Pro, which gives speedy Web access to email with just about any dial-up modem with a host of features - filtering, vacation, forwarding, polling remote pop servers and copying the mail to them, storying mail folders on server, server addressbook, imap as well as pop/smtp mail - -, 10 megs ftp space, personal Web page. Anyway, Communigate is fast and versatile enough that it provides fine email access at any traveling location. You can preview Communigate by going to the Stalker.com site. For me, I do not need to worry about dail-up numbers, DNS entries nationwide. Similar Web interfaces like Earthlink's are slow and/or cumbersome, but this one is not. The free Web-based email services like Yahoo's have started charging extra for pop/smtp access, and any other extras they think people might want like forwarding. Some people, perhaps you(?), care whether they can store incoming email on their own PC or laptop when traveling. I do not care. However, for a little more a month (I think about $20. instead of the $15. I pay) you do get roaming access numbers nationwide, from California.com's parent company, Econetwork.net, I believe with your local DNS, so you do not have the changing DNS problem. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
