This is a followup to a query posted a few days ago... Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:25:06 -0500 From: pel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [SaF] Looking for very very easy email > Many members of my family have email, but my grandmother doesn't, > because she's a technophobe. We'd like to have her in the email loop, > and so I proposed giving her an old 486 computer and paying for net > service so she could have email. She said "NEVER!". I proposed Juno, > same response. > > But, we're not giving up... Is there anything like a dedicated email > device like a PDA or something that _just_does_email_ and is > _dead_simple_ for an 81 year-old technophobe to use? I heard there is > something like a phone with a little keyboard and a screen that does > email. A PDA would be good, but it has to have nice big clear letters > for 81 YO eyes. > > Since I would be paying for it lock, stock and barrel, I hope it doesn't > cost too much. I just now became aware of this site featuring a product called "Mailbug." http://www.landel.com/ <quote> With MailBug, anyone with a telephone line can get email without the hassle or expense of a computer. MailBug makes checking email as convenient as checking an answering machine. It�s easy to use and affordable. <endquote> It will cost you $149. Not cheap, but a lot better than the cost of a computer. It looks pretty cool, to me: http://www.landel.com/pages/products.html This Mailbug also offers, for an additional fee, the e-mail account service. The downside is that you can only connect directly to a Landel account. Grandma would have to have local access or her long distance bill will be very costly. However, on the plus side, "if your ISP has a POP3 server that is reachable from the Internet, you may use the MailBug to retrieve email from this server." Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
