Hi Lanier and all free-'Net geeks!
In a recent edition of the digest, the following appeared:
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:08:40 -0500
> From: plmaddux <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The Bottom Line / pc virus land
>
> You are talking about all the free anti-virus software etc....that is
> available, how about free Internet, are you paying for your ISP?
> ...
> As you can see from my addr I am using NETZERO. as in ZERO cost for their
> Internet service. It has been working fine for me for about two years now.
I travel *a lot* for a living and have, for the last year or
so, depended on services such as these. I have found NetZero to
be one of the most dependable of these services.
However, many of them are in trouble as several have been
bought out or went out of business in recent months. In fact, I
got a note from the "powers that be" at NetZero saying that If I
used over 40 hours a month again ( :-) ), they would be charging
me a fee. So, it is a free service as long as you stay within
their limits.
I think Juno and NetZero may be the only two of these types of
business that stay in business. AltaVista, WorldSpy, Freewwweb,
and FreeInternet (among others) are some of the recent casual-
ties. K-Mart is in the business but they limit their users to
25 hours per month. Freelane (Excite) also put a monthly limit
on their users.
I have heard that Classmates.com is going to provide such a
service among many new features soon.
I hope that someone continues in the business ... I want to
continue to be able to surf and read e-mail in the hotels I stay
in during the evening after class ...
Does anybody know if AOL makes their connection via PPP?
Sorry for the off-topicness ... it was just a subject that I
find myself currently involved with on a personal basis. Back to
your regularly scheduled Parkinson's chat ...
Bill--
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