From bobrankin@mhv.net Tue Jul 16 11:15:53 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 02:17:03 -0400 From: Bob Rankin Reply-To: TOURBUS-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: Multiple recipients of list TOURBUS Subject: TOURBUS - 16 July 1996 - Free E-Mail Around the World /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|_________/ | \ / /______|----\ / Catch the latest games, education, & multimedia at |//////| | | WorldVillage. Visit WWW.WorldVillage.Com/daily.htm |//////| | | for a new software review every 24 hours! |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP : Free E-Mail Around the World Wow, I got quite a response to my last posting on free e-mail services! TourBus riders from around the world(*) sent me info on free Internet and e-mail services in their area. (*) We now have subscribers from 110 countries. I'm convinced that some of you are starting your own countries and then subscribing to TOURBUS just to inflate the numbers. Don't stop! ;-) *--------------------------* ONLINE COURSES *----------------------* Do you want to keep your job AND take courses? Univ. of Wisconsin- Stout provides facilitated & self-paced courses online. For info visit "http://major.uwstout.edu" or e-mail "conted@uwstout.edu". *--------------------------------------------------------------------* OK, I've boiled it down just a little, but here is what eight of your fellow riders sent to me on the subject... Jean-Francois Fortin (jf@Mlink.NET) from Montreal, Canada, says: > There are about 365 BBSs here in Montreal, and *many* of them are free > and offer free e-mail to their subscribers. Here are the numbers: > > NAME OF BBS PHONE (all are area code 514) > ---------------------------- -------- > > Flash! BBS 768-5476 > Juxtaposition BBS Line 1 364-2937 > Juxtaposition BBS Line 2 367-1505 > Juxtaposition BBS Line 3 364-9940 > Marcus BBS 642-3186 Jan van Bruggen (Jan.vanBruggen@nym.sc.philips.com) from the "land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and semiconductor factories", says: > Over here in The Netherlands, we also have free email acces. > We have these projects called "digital cities". Some of the bigger cities > have installed a server on which you can get a free account. > > These digital cities have a coule of features, like MOO's, usenet > groups, IRC channels etc. On DDS (Amsterdam) you can Email to the whole > world, but on others you can only mail to the .nl domain. > > URL's : HTTP://www.dds.nl/ (Digitale stad Amsterdam) > HTTP://www.dse.nl/ (Digitale stad Eindhoven) Pete Juds (pandaman@twics.com) from Tokyo, Japan, says: > There is a server in Japan called IAC Online which has offered free email > since (as far as I know) it's establishment. > > Users in Japan have to pay fairly high prices. I myself pay =A55,000 (that's > yen - don't know if you can read the sign?) which is just short of $50 per > month. This gives unlimited access and 5MB of disk space for web pages but > local phone calls cost a fortune - 20 hours is about another $50. Rudo Prager (rudo.prager@magnet.at) from Vienna, Austria, says: > There is a free e-mail service in Austria. It is called BlackBox. > Anybody who registers after dialling into their Vienna node gets an > e-mail address (real.name@blackbox.at). The catch: none if you are happy > with e-mail only. But they hope that you eventually subscribe to their other > services for a basic fee of $ 8 per month. Raul Schlegel (schlegr2@uni2a.unige.ch) from Geneva, Switzerland says: > A friend of a friend of mine uses Freenet in Finland for free-mail. > I don't know what you do to have an account, but their URL is > http://www.freenet.hut.fi/ Ariella Bayer (aribayer@netvision.net.il) from Tel Aviv, Israel, says: > Hi bob, > There's another free-email sevices within the web: > http://www.hotmail.com Pat Drummond (pat@freenet.carleton.ca) form Ontario, Canada, says: > Ottawa, Ontario has a free ISP with e-mail supported by advertising called > Ottawa.public.net. The service is funded completely by advertising -- the > one-time registration fee of $20 (about $15 U.S.) was to appease the > advertisers. > > Free full Internet access is available. E-mail is available as an option > (added recently because the advertisers want people to contact them!). > URL: http://www.ottawa.public.net/ And Orrin Kerr (orrin@FDPD-agcan.org), also from Ottawa, adds: > There is another reason for a Freenet address other than the cost. And > that is a reasonably steady e-mail address. In the past year, my > brother's e-mail address has changed once and another friend's address > has changed twice as ISPs come and go. I urge my friends to get a Freenet > membership where ever they are and no matter which ISP they are using. > Then they can set the mail forwarding address to the ISP/mail server/ > address that they are currently using. *---------------* Win the $1 Million Dollar Giveaway! *-------------* Play the Prize-link Progressive Jackpot Sweepstakes at Web Warehouse. A chance to WIN up to $1 Million Instantly! Web Warehouse offers a wide assortment of quality consumer items from jewelry to music CDs. *-----------------------( http://webwarehouse.com )-------------------* Hey, DID YOU KNOW... You don't have to enter the "http://" prefix on Web URLs if you use the Netscape browser? 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