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Ohioian Apr 28th, 2003 03:13 PM

e-mail access
 
We will be in Germany and Austria for two weeks beginning May 6. I am interested in advice on how/where to access e-mail and the web.

jody Apr 28th, 2003 03:37 PM

My ISP has access by webmail..but before it did..I used www.mail2web.com...

And just any internet cafe has access at varying rates!

rex Apr 28th, 2003 04:57 PM

The leading choices are hotmail.com or yahoo.com (click on "mail").

Best wishes,

Rex

rex Apr 28th, 2003 04:58 PM

Oh, or maybe you knew that, and were asking about cybercafes or internet cafes. Lots of info here - - search "cybercafes".

bob_brown Apr 28th, 2003 05:20 PM

I have successfully found cyber cafes in Lauterbrunnen (Switzerland), Vienna and Munich. The approach is usually to buy something to drink every so often. In other cases, you pay by the time period.
I set up a yahoo mail account just to be sure I could access it from just about anywhere.
My business email account was set up for a period of time to forward everything to Yahoo. Access was not a problem.

One problem you might run into it this: Instructions on the screen are in the language of the country you are in. In read enough German to battle through it, but the keyboard with the z and y keys reversed, plus all the umlaut letters and other symbols, was something of a challenge. I wrote zahoo a few times, and zello.




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