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NetZero & The Browser Question

Hi there. I'm back again, confused about an entirely new issue.

NetZero offers Mac users "NetZero Platinum" for $9.95/mo.

{I've been paying You-Know-Who an unseemly $23.90/month for years because, in the beginning, no other ISP offered an access phone number around these here parts, and, more recently, because an e-mail address change sounds so complicated (is it? does one have to notify all the people one would rather avoid contacting just so those same people aren't insulted by having not been notified?).}

But back on topic:

Something I don't understand on the NetZero website's ( http://www.netzero.net/support/start/online-plat.html) simulation of the online registration process is that, at the bottom of the page, under Download Instructions, it addresses two types of customers: Internet Explorer users, and Netscape users.

I don't use either (do I even have either?) so what does that mean? What download instruction would I follow? And if I did have, say, IE, would I have to use it as my browser in order to use NetZero's service? If NetZero's so Mac-friendly that they name a product for it ("Platinum") why wouldn't they acknowledge Safari users in their instructions and steer us in the right direction? Not all of us are knowledgeable about things like browsers . . . but I just KNOW some of YOU are 🙂

I need you! If you don't respond, I will be forced to remain with current conglomerate ISP and will never be able to afford a Nano.

P.S. Whether you understand that browser stuff above or not, I'd be grateful to hear any ISP user reviews/recommendations. All I want in an ISP is less expensive dial-up access.

P.P.S. How do I make that http address above turn into a link? I looked into the discussion editor's Style section but must've missed it.

Posted on Sep 16, 2005 1:21 PM

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Sep 16, 2005 1:43 PM in response to BonnieB

Just a little tip. Never ever use the email accounts that come from your internet provider. Get a gmail account, yahoo, or your choice so long as it is public email service. Now you can quit and change ISPs or travel anywhere in the world with a web cafe and browser web access and get to and send email. You have an email address that you can give you friends and never have to worry about telling them that it changed just because you moved.

I prefer gmail. It has free pop access so you can use Mail if you are used to that as your mail client as well as use the Safari/Browser. It also has the best spam protection of all my email accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail)

Re PPS the quickest and easiest way is to just enter it on a line all by itself and not inside parenthesis. The way I do it is to write html coded anchor tag but thats going to require some learning to do it properly.

Sep 16, 2005 3:49 PM in response to BonnieB

Well, Bonnie,

You should be able to enjoy the better-priced NetZero, so long as there are non-long distance access #s in your area, even if it somehow requires IE to get online.

That's how MSN was for Macs until recently; you were required to use the MSN/quasi-IE browser to dial-up. But immediately afterwards Safari could be utilized.

Please let us in this thread all hear who well things turn out.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

Sep 18, 2005 12:57 PM in response to BonnieB

You might also want to check out access4less.net, which is only $5.95 a month for unlimited access and doesn't put advertising in your email. I used it for a couple of years for dialup and outside of the mail server going down for about half a day every six weeks or so, it was very reliable.

You do pay $5 a call if you want to contact their support by phone rather than email, but it's still a bargain.

NetZero & The Browser Question

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