Re: Free Internet... ? Why 14 mb?
Actually, I think it is probably a customized version of Internet Explorer. I don't know about the Mac, probably IE for that as well. Many ISPs offer versions of IE with their logos in place of the spinning 'e' and other customizations. Since some of them offer this, everyone else feels as though they have to do it as well.
Update:
The gateway through http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW works very well - and you don't download anything (just the setup.cgi). It took me a few tries to register, but everything seemed to go through just fine.
Thanks all!
-Percival
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 01:05:24PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> It seems to me that those companies that ask you to download 14 mb or so of software are intending to see inside your computer, otherwise, why would they ask you to do so, if it is enough to just set the connection parametrs? Any ideas?
>
> Percival wrote:
>
> > I thought that was the service, but they seem to want me to download their software - and only give me choices for Windows 98/95 and Mac. I also remember seeing a different webpage for the service (not blue and white), which talked specifically about linux.
> >
> > Anyway, I didn't want to go on with the download (14MB), but I will if it is necessary to get the username and password and DNS info and all that. What should I do?
> >
> > -Percival
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:48:54PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:50:38PM -0800, Percival wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I apologize, but I remember that several days ago someone was talking about a free web access deal. Some company who pays for free internet access by putting advertising on their hompage, and requesting users to load it as their start page. It worked with linux, which was the prime factor.
> > > >
> > > > I lost those messages, and I need to find this service again (I also lost the bookmark). Anyway, if anyone's got the info out there, please e-mail me.
> > >
> > > The service is at <http://www.freewwweb.com>. It's good, but where I
> > > am they drop packets headed for port 25 on any other machine than
> > > their own. This makes sending mail kind of a pain in the butt if you
> > > don't have a backup ISP. Maybe it's different in other places.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Chris Gray
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > -Percival
> > > >
> > > >
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