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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Gene who saw my posting about BL3 with Opera is looking for a small linux 
that will work with yahoo webmail, on old hardware, cheaply.

Yahoo webmail requires you to view an image hidden as javascript, for 
signin.  Opera works.  Lynx has no javascript.  links graphical (the 
delilinux version with BL2) displayed the javascript image (but not the 
list of titles and occupations), however it is not accepting cookies. 
Can I set it to do so?

Is there a fast-loading English-language free webmail that will work with 
links-0.90 and/or lynx?  Preferably usable without graphics.

The two nicest-looking ones I found are no longer free, due to abuse.
By coincidence, he mailed me from one of them.  Old users can still use it 
free.  (fastmail.ca, mailworks.org)

My local bbs had to stop offering outgoing mail to new users because of 
spammers.  (We are now on the sorbs blacklist and cannot write AOL).

The best ones I have used are in Slovak or Czech and no longer have 
English-language options.

I tried a cheap ISP with pan-US coverage that a friend was using, but 
their webmail identified my browser as not being on their list (opera, ie, 
netscape, firefox, mozilla) and refused me access.  Can anyone suggest a 
cheap ($6-7/month) ISP with webmail that works with links or lynx?  I used 
one for SE Michigan.  He is in upstate NY.

He is trying to put together computers donated by businesses (because they 
messed up their Windows software, mainly), some of which have bad hard 
drives.  Is there any way to use for BL a drive with bad boot sector, 
other than floppy disk boot?  We have partitioned off bad sectors.  Some 
of our computers let you boot from D E or F, but not all.  I am suggesting 
he use loop BL3.40 (in a 20MB DOS partition).

Their computers are 200MHz and up, the best one (their test model) being 
633MHz with NO ISA slots but they have one Lucent PCI modem and he is 
interested in David's package for that.  They have 700MB or larger hard 
drives.  There is room for Opera and enough RAM, but links would be much 
faster.

He is a linux newbie, having tried BeOS but it requires a pentium.  He got 
interested in linux when they were doing 486s.  I did not follow who was 
going to use the computers.

www.fepg.net has links to all the free email services they could find, 
some of which are broken or out of date (no longer free), listed by 
country.  You can get an account in Palestine or Israel.  Bulgaria has 
three, the Poles quite a lot.

Sindi