Hiya List! Going to try this again, hehe. The first attempt at a post was while using Lynx 386 DOS, and the web interface at SoftHome via Squirrelmail. I've noticed similar extra characters when filling out other web forms using Lynx 386. Kind of makes a message hard to read.
Anyway, I have been using SoftHome, www.SoftHome.net, for an email service for about a year now, ever since Yahoo announced they were going to drop the free POP3/SMTP service and go to a fee for usage basis. Softhome works usually quite well in both Arachne and Lynx 386, as well as stand alone email clients, such as NetMail DOS, POPMail PC and FoxMail 1.6 for Win3X. It does require some form of authentication prior to sending SMTP mail, but Arachne can manage it by doing a POP before SMTP, fetch before send. Another more recent free email service I can recommend is XMS Mail. In addition to the web interface, it also can use standalone clients using the POP before SMTP to authenticate the user. Another feature I like about XMS is the "forum", sort of a chat or message board. XMS also has a calendar which is web based and Arachne friendly. Keep your appointments, special occasions, etc. in a free PIM! Note: XMS is currently upgrading server and software, so the service may be unavailable for a couple of days. Sign up for a free email account at http://www.xms.ms. Finally, I would like to mention that it is OUR responsibility to support those services that continue to support US, the users of the Internet, especially those of us who prefer "alternative" operating systems and web software as opposed to whatever the latest version of Win9X is and IE 999 or whatever! If we, as users, do not support these excellent free services, then we have NOBODY but ourselves to blame when they no longer are available. Have a good one! C U L8R! Wiz <{;-) Wizard57M Glenn Gilbreath Jr. http://members.surfbest.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.htm -- DOS Internet, Close Windows and Keep the Internet Open! -- -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
