free ISPs

[memevector]

Advice and opinions please... Which free ISPs are the best (or least worst, as the case may be)? The only one I can even think of is Freeserve.

It has to allow multiple email addresses for different people using the computer, though not necessarily unlimited names, in fact not necessarily very many at all - probably two or three, maybe four.

Thanks in advance for clues!

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[bi-dancer13.livejournal.com]

My advice fwiw:
1. don't go with BT they sell your email address to spammers, i know cos i have to spam to an address i've never used to send an email cos it isn't set up on my pc and have never given out to anyone.
2. I've just switched to Virgin and they seem ok, with there unlimited hrs package you get 5 email addresses but i don't know if this varies with what package you choose.
3. Plus net are also recommended by several people and you can get unlimted email addresses there as well, they would all have the same bit after the @ though.
HTH
*hugs*
Sonia

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[memevector.livejournal.com]

lovingboth has drawn my attention to the fact that I wasn't very clear about what I meant by "free". I need it to be pay-via-phone-bill rather than subscriptions. Are any of those that kind?

(though I'm beginning to think that anyone on LJ is going to be a keen enough internet user that if they've got a computer at home at all it's going to be on a subscription tariff...)

anyway thanks for the info - interesting about BT...

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[bi-dancer13.livejournal.com]

Yeah all three of the companies i mentioned you can pay via your phone bill rather than a set fee each month.
Plus others also offer dial up as well including NTL, Breathe and Tesco (Tesco i've used and was great until i had computer problems and had to reinstall the software and then it wouldn't let me just reactivate the account i had before i had to join again with a different name and clubcard no)

[lovingboth]

What do you mean by 'free'? 0845 dialup, but no monthly fee? 0800 dialup for so much a month?

[memevector.livejournal.com]

What do you mean by 'free'? 0845 dialup, but no monthly fee?

Yes, I think that's what I meant (inasmuch as I had any idea what I meant) :-)

It's for someone who's not super organised with money (e.g. has had their land line cut off several times in the last few years), so the idea is for them not to have another bill to forget to pay :-/

Though, I must admit, it's not very clear yet how much surfing they'll ever do (this'll be the first time they've had access to the net from home), so another price structure might in fact prove cheaper in the long run.