Perhaps you will be in another city some day and want to read your Suncoast Freenet email. If you do not have a computer with you, you may go to the library and read your email there for free. We have done this in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, etc. Most large cities have many computers on the Internet now, and they allow public use, even for nonresidents.

How do you go about it? Ask the librarian if they permit you to read your email on their computers. They may put you at a desk and give you a temporary name and password. You may then bring up Netscape and type in telnet://scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us in the "location" line. This will take you to the Suncoast Freenet. I get half of my email there.

If you want to try this out now, get on the Internet and if you have a copy of telnet either on your machine (Windows 95/98 have it) or the server you work through, just type the above, or whatever URL you want to go to, on the "location" line in Netscape. I do not use Internet Explorer so I can't tell you how that would work, but it would probably be the same.

When I am on my ISP here in Tampa, I bring up Netscape and type in that FREENET URL above and use the telnet program. I can use the email service on the ISP's location also; I just tried that here at home once more to be sure you can do it if the circumstances allow. u