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An acquaintance who is afraid of computers has been getting email via a 
neighbor who prints it out.  She claims she has no space for a computer 
(though her house is at least three times the size of this one, which has 
space for a few dozen of them) so I offered a laptop.  I have an Armada 
120MHz 16MB RAM, with internal power supply (less intimidating).  She has 
a landline phone for use with her fax machine.  She says she cannot type 
and will not be writing any emails, just reading them.  Just turned 79.

Nongraphical links works well for fastmail webmail but there are too many 
choices.  For $5/year you get SMTP and POP mail.  Is there a free POP mail 
provider that works with pmail?  I will try to teach her to log into BL 
and dial.  Is Sylpheed easier than pmail for a beginner to learn?  The 
only objective is to download and read mail (and delete it after that).
Will BL Sylpheed work with BL2?  I can add loop BL3.

The problem with POP mail is people sometimes send enormous photos or 
jokes.  And you have to download all the HTML junk.  I will start with 
webmail.

I just showed BL2 to a friend whose grown kids insist on buying her a new 
Windows computer for her birthday.  She would rather have BL on her 10 
year old desktop.  She knows DOS and likes typing.