Steve Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

>No dial-up on the Staffs & Worcs as far as I know ;-) 

T-Mobile still provides it.  But I think you are actually using it,
and calling it "GPRS".

>I'm on an unlimited data contract with Vodafone which is better than ADSL in 
>some 
>locations and worse than dial-up in others. At my present mooring 
>(Tixall) I'm getting around 3kbps via GPRS, which is not much use for 
>anything except email. 

Mobile broadband might well prove less expensive for you.  I think the
cheapest packages are about a tenner a month, with unlimited
downloading including Skype for about £25 which would cover most of
the cost of your outgoing phone calls.  It would also often be 1,000
times as fast! (i.e. 3 Meg instead of 3 kilo)!

> I need access to mail all the time for various 
>reasons and can't be bothered with a mailing list which is going to 
>regularly send me large messages.

I access this forum via newsreader software instead of email, not
least to avoid having emails from it clogging my in box.  I recommend
this approach to you.  

I use the news host Gmane.  I use Free Agent as the software, but I
hear this is no longer made freely available by its publisher.   I
believe Outlook Express will do the job, though.

Adrian
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Adrian Stott
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