>          I'm not clear on what it takes to send and receive e-mail.
>          If I get a modem on my computer at home and install Netscape
>          Navigator - and then get that free Web e-mail, does that do
>          it?  Or do I still have to get service from a provider in
>          order to connect to the right high-speed lines?  Answers,
>          anyone?
>
>          Lynette Cook
>          Morrison Planetarium
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This is the problem with *free* e-mail for most home users,  you still need
a service provider to hook into the internet, and they almost always
provide e-mail as part of their basic package.  The advantage of these free
e-mail setups seems to be as a second or third address option wich is an
additional cost from service providers, also if you can access the free
e-mail from any web browser in the world, that would be an advantage most
service providers cant offer.  But you still have to pay for the first
connection to the service provider, or use it at work :>).

Britt Griswold
Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA
Code 253,  Bldg. 8 Rm N15
Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA
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(301) 286-3381