I've found a way around having to use something like AOL for travelling.
The name of the service is iPASS and it's a network of smaller ISPs which
let each other use their access numbers - they have them for most countries
in the world, even ones which AOL doesn't have... I use Lanminds (based in
Berkeley) as my roaming account although right now my dial-up is through a
free ISP because I'm living in the UK for my degree course...
Later.
Dan.
>The one major advantage (the only one that comes to my mind) of aol:
>commuting between Florida and Germany and regularly travelling to Spain, I
>have <local> aol access nodes everywhere. I've cussed aol so often and do it
>on a nearly daily basis, but the money it saves me by providing local access
>whereever I go is for the time being worth the crappy service and often pokey
>connections.
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