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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (2678)	9/28/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

Old Subject: I would be willing to volunteer to help with the indexing of posts to the Dream Machine thread. New Subject: Has anybody else ever heard of a prepaid Internet Calling card? The card gives you 800 access to the Internet from any place in the lower 48 states. The rates are 10 cents a minute and the minimum time increment you can buy is 200 minutes( $20.00 ). It sounds like a pretty good deal if you plan on using the Internet when traveling. I have heard of other Internet service providers, ISP, that charge as low as $5.00 per hour for 800 access to the Internet. However, none of them has a local number in my home town. Do you know of any hidden gotchas I should look out for. Note, as far as I know all ISP make you pay the regular monthly local access fee in addition to the 800 access fee when using an 800 number to access the Internet.. Sounds like a good deal. Mindspring and others typically charge 10$ an hour or more. $6 an hour sounds like a good deal. Another trick I use when travelling is sign up for the free 30 day trial from some national isp who you find in the local yellow pages. :) Sean Sean

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (2678)	10/3/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Thread Index Proposal #Subject-23122 With some help from the thread, ie a subject line at the beginning of a post where it makes sense and some volunteers the above might work. I wanted to group the categories together in the SI bookmark list so I started each category with Dream. This did not work too well as I keep more than one response open at the same time while indexing. The name of the thread appears on the task bar. It works out better if the category begins with a decimal as I did with the .RAM category. This will still bring the categories together in the SI bookmark list but makes the indexing a little easier. If the .RAM idea works out we can start new category threads for the first two categories that start with Dream. Most readers need only bookmark the Dream Machine Subject thread. Comments anyone? Zeuspaul