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Date sent: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 08:46:51 -0600 Send reply to: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network <[log in to unmask]> From: sue weiler <[log in to unmask]> Subject: NON PD: e-mail access when traveling To: [log in to unmask] > Dear Friends, > > I have always been able to keep current with the postings on the list > by accessing a website called Mollymail. It has been free up until > now. Does anyone know of another free access service like this? We > will be traveling again this week and I'd rather not go to no mail or > come home to bazillions of e-mail messages. Thanks in advance, > > > Sue > 53/dx52/50 > I plan to live forever---so far so good. > > [log in to unmask] > Sue, I am assuming that your ISP is not a "national" company like ATT is and that it does not have local phone numbers all over. One of the reasons that I use ATTGlobal (IBMNET before it was bought out by ATT) is that it has "nodes" (phone numbers) virtually all over the world, and I could almost always find a way to connect no matter where I was. In China, however, where I visited in 1998, the closest IBM node was in Hong Kong, and since I was in Beijing, that would have been a long- distance call. Furthermore, the Hong Kong node was always busy, and for the first 2 days in Beijing, I could only connect through the node in Tokyo. The long-distance charges were astronomical! Then, I discovered that if one can connect to *any* ISP, and if one knows the Internet addresses of their own mail servers (a POP3 server for receiving mail and a SMTP server for sending mail), one can access their accounts from any local ISP as long as you can "get in". In Beijing, I obtained the password from a colleague (the person I was visiting), signed into his Chinese ISP, and then, using my own POP3 and SMTP server addresses was fully in contact. And the calls were all local/free calls! So, if you know someone in the area where you are traveling, simply ask them to give you access to their ISP. Once you are connected to the Internet, you can access your mail account through your own mailer program as long as you know the addresses of the servers. You can get that information from your own ISP at home. Good luck. Best, Bob Robert A. Fink, M. D. 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, California 94704-2636 USA 510-849-2555 PLEASE NOTE: Because of the takeover of IBMNET by AT&T, my new e-mail address, effective immediately, is: <[log in to unmask]> The old <ibm.net> address will no longer function after March 1, 2001. PLEASE CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS BOOKS.