In Reply to: EMAIL ACCESS AOL posted by LORRI on Friday, 13. August 1999 at 09:30 Bali Time:
lorri wrote:
I SUGGEST THAT YOU OPEN AN ACCESS ACCOUNT SUCH AS YAHOO.COM.
aol has a proprietary mail system, rather than using popmail. yahoo, excite, hotmail and the rest can access popmail but not aol.
several possibilities: 1) get the yahoo (hotmail, excite etc) account and tell your friends to contact you at that address while you're gone. or, 2) try http://www.aol.com. theoretically this allows you to access your aol account from anywhere. the friend i was travelling with in spain recently was never able to access her account this way; it was always too busy.
i have a yahoo account that i use when i'm on the road. i like it bc it allows access to multiple pop3 accounts. i don't like it bc it is sometimes extremely slow and kludgy -- tho that could have something to do with slow modems and picture-hanger-wire phonelines in some of the more remote places i've visited.
sara