John, Up to now my main problem is that I have to pay by the minute on the internet through the phone. This means that loading HTML messages cost extra mony. I severely ration my times online at home and often I go online on a computer at the university which is free. Then I read messages in the mailbox of my provider, Wanadoo, and remove the spam. I do the same in internet caf�s in Ireland, from where I have sent messages to the listserver as well. At home, during cheap times, I download them.
However, I have applied for flat fee internet access between 19:00 and 08:00 on weekdays and Saturday/Sunday all day for 30 euro per month. I hope that I can change over very soon and I will keep my old e-mail address. I do not have problems with HTML as such, and taking a Yahoo account would still mean long downloading times with the cost it entails, now on the Yahoo site. And I am surely not changing to Yahoo, one of the great hunting grounds for spammers who 'harvest' e-mail addresses, just to be able to delete their HTML or other trash. The mailbox of my provider is large enough, several MB, when I return from Ireland I download hundreds of messages from it during the cheap nightly hours, but some spam HTML e-mail is corrupted and causes time-out errors. A lot of spam I get has Yahoo addresses as well. Internet through the power line is definitely on the way. It is also being tested in Germany. It should be fast and cheap and when it comes, I think next year, I will upgrade to it. Data can flow through the same lines through which power flows. A device is connected to the electricity meter to accept the data into the home and then a special modem links the computer to the power supply. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-02-23 20:37 Subject: [USMA:18374] RE: International Date Format Campaign.htm 2002-02-23 > I also only have a 56 kb/s modem, and where long downloads should bother me, they don't. I have a cousin and friends who often send me pictures. So, while they download, I go and make myself a snack to eat. > My cable company is going to have internet service beginning sometime in the spring. A neighbour told me last week, cable internet service will be available in 5 weeks. So, I'm looking forward to it. > I think if you open a parallel yahoo mail account, and use it for the listserver, you won't over load your providers mailbox. Plus, it is HTML friendly. > I never heard of internet service via the power supply. Or is it your electric supplier would install a coax line to connect you and everyone else to a local server? I'd be interested in hearing how it works. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-02-23 03:37 Subject: [USMA:18372] RE: International Date Format Campaign.htm My software does work with HTML, no problem at all, but downloading these messages takes ages and sometimes they cause problems at the provider's mailbox, resulting in time-out errors which stop the downloading. Then I go to the provider's site and erase all HTML messages in the mailbox there. This has not happed with HTML messages from John, but several times with SPAM HTML mails. I have a 56K modem at the moment. In the not too far future I want to upgrade to internet through the electricity mains, which is now in the experimental stage in Arnhem, 17 km north of Nijmegen where I live. Han <snip>
