-=> Quoting Donna Ransdell to Fred Mckenzie <=-
 > Its product seems to be E-Mail service.  The price/
 > cost is putting up with advertising, isn't it?
 DR> Yes, but if you don't mind sitting there and doing it each day, you
 DR> *can* delete the ads. It just takes time. I've tried it and decided
 DR> that I'd rather endure the ads than sit there and delete ads on a daily
 DR> basis. 
 I did the very same thing. What a totally annoying process. And, some of
 those files were very large.
 DR> There are two things that irritate me more about Juno than the ads: it
 DR> *often* takes me three or four tries to connect to their system. Since
 DR> Juno is *NOT* a local call for me, this costs me between .04 and .09
 DR> per try. Also, trying to get any customer service is almost impossible.
 Yep! That irritated me likewise. Smaller cities around me, with lower
 populations were given local service, and they wouldn't offer one for my
 area either. They wrote me once explaining that calling in at the .04 -.09
 cents was only being done on the average of once a day. How could I possibly
 complain about that? I thought to myself, Huh!? Nah, that's enough. So, I
 cancelled the account, deleted the program, and hooked into a "FreeNet"
 Service provider, which requires using my regular Telecommunication
 software.
 It works just like a BBS. They offer me a limited (TEXT ONLY) web browser,
 that works only when I'm online, an E-Mail account, and much more. All FREE!
 And, it's a LOCAL call! Most of all, there's absolutely nothing to download
 or, install on your system! You simply find the number of the service in
 your area, call in, obtain your FREE account, then use the system! It's that
 easy!
 I found it offered by one of the local universities in my area when I was
 visiting my local library one day. I inquired about it, and the librarian
 gave me all the information I needed. You might try searching your area for
 "FreeNet" as well. According to my Internet search recently, they seem to be
 all over the US, (as a network). You can communicate with other "FreeNet"
 services in other states via TelNet as well. That way if you had a child in
 college in Boston, and you were in CA. You could communicate with each other
 in Real Time (Chat Mode), using TelNet via the Internet rather than pay the
 long distance charges for an actual voice call.
 Bottom line...The E-Mail account IS FREE, no ADS to contend with, and it's
 a local call!
 Sincerely,
 Michael Sharon
 
... According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
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