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Subject: 
accessing email away from computer
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Date: 
Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:43:29 GMT
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I've seen sites  where you can join up and access your email from a different
computer. Is it a good/safe thing to do? I'm going away soon and I'd like to
keep up with my emails from my parents computer. Any advice is appreciated.
Here is one site I saw http://www.mailstart.com/

I'm no computer geek, so please keep your answers simple ;-)
Thanks,
Julie



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  Re: accessing email away from computer
 
Hi Julie, you might see if you email provider is offering a web based option. At the university, they set up a web based email access that all you have to do is has internet access and use a browser to load the web site. You can set any computer (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: accessing email away from computer
 
(...) hotmail or yahoo mail to check it for you, and access their sites from the web... I haven't tried it myself, so I cannot give you any more directions... sorry. Dan (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: accessing email away from computer
 
(...) Mostly safe, yes. I've used mailstart.com - it works. I also have my Yahoo! mail account setup to check my 3 main non-Yahoo! addresses. I prefer to use Yahoo! now, mainly because I like the interface and I actually use it for dealing with a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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