[TheForge] Internet Question

Sun Aug 25 18:24:01 2002

Jim, not much new here on your question. Most real internet hookups seem 
to run in the $20 per month region. Cheaper ones mean more advertising. 
Non-AOL for the same money can mean zero advertising (from the ISP; you 
still end up with spam).

Yahoo has a poor record recently with respect to user privacy 
preferences. I cancelled all my Yahoo groups. Basically they reset 
everyone's preferences to "send me all the junk" without asking, 
allowing you to change it back, of course. Not a friendly action.

Local ISP's can have interesting features. Ours (Frii in Colorado) 
offers an email filtering service (free), which I am quite enamoured 
with called MailArmory. You set a tolerance level (how sensitive a spam 
filter to use), and you don't get messages that are likely to be spam. 
You can go to a web page and review them to make sure before deleting, 
or if you are confident, they evaporate after a time limit. This month 
so far has 782 messages, 56% of which were stopped by MailArmory. It is 
almost always right, too. I guess it is pretty easy to pick out all the 
"LOWER MORTGAGE NOW" and such junk.

Steve Smith

[email protected] wrote:
> I've been using AOL ever since I got my computer.    I really only go on the 
> Internet to look at my e-mails and maybe the weather.    I'm getting sick of 
> paying $22 a month for that.   What do you recommend?   I looked at Yahoo 
> this morning; I don't really understand it.   Is it free?    It just seems 
> that you'd have to pay somebody something to get on the Internet!    I'd 
> appreciate any comments and suggestions from all you computer gurus out 
> there.
> 
> Jim Sorber
> Pottstown, PA
> 
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