LL-L "Technology" 2005.11.03 (07) [E]

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03 November 2005 * Volume 07
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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Technology

Hello, Lowlanders!

As many of you may already be aware and others may not be, some of the email 
service providers, both free and paid, now offer, in addition to real-time 
or same-time (chat) correspondence, free worldwide telephony.  Among the 
free services that do so are Yahoo and Google.

Google is now offering Gmail (http://mail.google.com/), a beta version of a 
free email service with loads and loads of extras and storage capacity, also 
a photo album add-on.  It is officially "by invitation only."  You need to 
have a mobile telephone to sign up or must use another person's mobile phone 
for this purpose -- but this is only for signing up, i.e., confirmation, and 
the promise is to keep out junk and any other sort of botheration.  So far 
my experiences with it have been positive ones.

The reason why I am mentioning this is that I believe that many of you who 
have formed their own little offline "cliques" over time might like to use 
the free long-distance phone service to kick their communication up to the 
level of occasional talks.

I've tried it with our Kenneth (between Groningen and Seattle).  I was just 
amazed how very clear his voice sounded even though I was using a dial-up 
modem that day.  Unfortunately, there is something wrong with my microphone 
connection (not with my microphones), so I wasn't able to reciprocate, and 
we had to resort to written chat.  (If anyone feels like helping me 
troubleshoot this, I'd be eternally grateful.)

Have fun!
Reinhard/Ron 

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