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Intrernet service?
fergusonmorse392
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My msn contract is about to expire. I use phone line. Any suggestions as to a good & maybe not so pricey. Michigan.
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My msn contract is about to expire. I use phone line. Any suggestions as to a good & maybe not so pricey. Michigan.
I still use AOL, because I've had the same e-mail address for years and do not wish to part with it. If you're looking for something that isn't costly, don't use AOL.
Jacqueline
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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt (1783)
NetZero & GBR have dialups in all major cities, but check out the dialup's before committing.
Then use hotmail.com for all your mail, so that your e-mail addr stays the same as you change IP's.
Walte
"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
BIG DOG
6.95 a month. if you cancel, they refund your money.
SGT USMC
SSGT USAF
The greatest happiness is to see your enemy scattered before you, to see his village in ashes, and to gather to your bed his wives and daughters.-Genghis Khan 1226
I became a virtual ISP some time ago. What it is, is a non-ad-based $9.95 service, a simple month-to-month 56k dial-up that uses your own software -- I.E or Netscape, Outlook or Outlook Express, regular POP mail and so on. I do not push the service here as a rule.
What I am saying is to beware of ad-based services that would have you trade a cheaper price for software "enhancements" that deliver more ads. The internet does not need to cost as much as it does, and need not be ad based, and all that MSN and AOL are, are big websites designed to keep you there shopping as long as possible and surf the net as little as possible.
I have had AOL (for years), then MSN, then Earthlink. Also Netzero, FreeWWWeb, and Juno, among other low priced sites. Of the last 3, one is out of business and two have become twins. The best of the first class lot is undoubtedly Earthlink. None of the cheap ones I've listed pleased me because all were ad-based, and in fact the cheaper the service the more the software lumbered along with ads.
Joi looks interesting at the price, but it does require a "special software" download of "their" browser, and it is not clear whether you can use your Outlook Express or must use an html mail source.
What I want, as a serious residential Internet user, is just a clean 56k dial-up connection that allows me to use MY browser, MY e-mail client, MY FTP client, and so forth -- and no host-delivered ads, thank you very much. Whether I make a go of FortOnline or not, my motives are pure, and my domain reps for a large network of I-net backbones, not a silly little server in the back room of a restaurant somewhere...
What is interesting about "getjoi.net" is not so much its service and software, but of course its price, and the fact that it promises the availability of faster transfers and phone call access for only $9.95 -- though you'll need a v.92-capable modem to get these new features. All services are shortly going to these new protocols, by the way, so there's no reason to rush to change to get them. You'll need a new modem or modem driver and a dial-up capable of v.92, and call waiting if you want the phone call interruption feature. I'm thinking of getting a voice capable modem and adding an answering machine as well.
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T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
we use a local line ..sand hills phone company it is 20$ a month and not to wippy at that[B)][B)][B)][:0][:0][:0]
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T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."