After Ricochet Wireless terminated service in Corvallis(and probably Eugene
too), I have been using Freei.net, which uses the same local access phone
numbers as Alta Vista. Freei.net requires that IE5 be installed. And the mail
handler that they use, Joydesk, has a pop server; but it does not pass messages
"as is" to Netscape Messenger.
Do any free internet services support Linux or do any of them NOT require IE?
Rodney
"John Morrison<" wrote:
> > > > Sign up for Juno's free Net service (as well as their free E-mail
> > > > service) at:
> > > > http://www.juno.com
>
> > > sign up for Alta Vista's free Net service which can be downloaded at...
> > > http://www.1stup.com
>
> For anyone who might be interested in my experience with Alta Vista's free
> Net service... I remembered that my first few (days of) problems in getting
> hooked up were caused by the CD that I got from Computer Renaissance in
> Portland. It must have been dated info and I couldn't get any of the access
> numbers to work. I eventually downloaded the software from the above site.
> It included several additional #'s for Oregon and one local #. Things
> started going a lot better then.
>
> Also, I've just discovered that when I click on the search (dropdown) tab on
> the Portal, the advertising banner becomes Alta Vista's search window.
> That's pretty cool.
>
> But, this AM the program was different. When I clicked on the desktop Icon
> to start the browser a couple of new windows came up that explained that I
> was going to have to set up a "location" so that I could distinguish between
> home and office access. Presumably for access #'s. While doing so I
> noticed that there are now two local #'s for the telephone prefix that I
> inputted. It would appear to me that they are downloading updates without
> any... warning??? It seems to me that AOL for example always said that
> there were updates available and asked if you wanted them downloaded. I
> guess I'm wondering what else they might be able to do. Installing their
> software does involve a "Networking Software" upgrade but I forget which one
> right now. I wonder if that might allow some security measure bypass. I'd
> sure be interested in any
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Morrison
